Material Recovery Facility

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. "Clean" MRFs accept materials from source separation schemes and Dry Mixed Recyclable materials (DMR). ‘Dirty’ MRFs extract recyclables from mixed MSW and are generally more focused on producing a WDF. There are other MRFs which are focused on particular waste streams as well – for example construction and demolition and skip wastes, and waste electronic equipment.