The Price of Recycling Incorrectly
You may love to recycle, but you might actually be terrible at it. What’s the cost of our “wish-cycling”?
DEM-CON MATERIALS RECOVERY IS A SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING FACILITY THAT ACCEPTS RECYCLABLE MATERIALS GENERATED FROM COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL SOURCES.
SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING INCREASES RECYCLING AND MAKES RECYCLING MORE CONVENIENT.
Below is a list of Acceptable & Unacceptable Materials.
70,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art processing facility located conveniently off HWY 169 in Shakopee with quick truck access to tipping floor.
10 TONS per hour of source separated materials.
25 TONS per hour of commingled household and commercial recyclables.
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You may love to recycle, but you might actually be terrible at it. What’s the cost of our “wish-cycling”?
Recent policies pertaining to scrap imports into China are making exporting some postconsumer recyclables increasingly difficult. Material recovery facility (MRF) operators are trying to find new technologies or processes to help them meet China’s stricter quality requirements. This situation and others, such as labor shortages, have helped to increase MRF operators’ interest in robotic sorting systems, which claim to achieve highly pure recyclables at higher processing rates than hand sorting.
China has almost entirely stopped buying recycled material, which is rattling recycling bins halfway around the world in Minnesota. Industry experts say the unsold material is backing up, recyclers are losing money, and consumers are facing higher costs and new recycling rules.