Material Recovery Facility

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A Material Recovery Facility is often referred to as a ‘MRF’ and is generically a facility that sorts, grades and prepares waste fractions suitable for onward dispatch to Reprocessors. Many also refer to a MRF as a Material Recycling Facility, which is not strictly true in that the MRF separates the material for onward recycling rather than recycling the material in its own right.

There are essentially three broad types of MRF:

  • "Clean" MRFs that accept materials from source separation schemes and Dry Mixed Recyclables (DMR). A pictorial overview of their layout is shown below[1]:
MRF Diagram
MRF Diagram

References

  1. Suez Recycling and Recovery UK