| div cl | | | | collected at the kerbside during the recycled waste |
| To the uninitiated the term Dirty MRF (pronounced | | | | collection week for fortnighly waste collection |
| âmurfâ) sounds vaguely unpleasant, | | | | schemes, or in the recycled bins put out in weekly |
| maybe even insulting. Perhaps, when you first heard it | | | | house collection schemes. |
| spoken you thought the person who said it must have | | | | The plant and/or labour employed within the plant |
| been struck by a speech impediment! | | | | separates out designated recyclable materials through |
| A dirty MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) is a waste | | | | a combination of manual and mechanical sorting. This |
| processing facility, accepting deliveries from WCV | | | | often includes a trommel screen and a magnetic |
| (Waste Collection Vehicles), as a mixed solid waste | | | | separator to remove tins and cans and other metal |
| stream (otherwise known as residual waste, or Black | | | | objects. Also, the sorted recyclable materials may |
| Bag waste). The other type of MRF, a Clean MRF, | | | | undergo further processing required to meet technical |
| accepts only co-mingled types of materials as | | | | specifications established by end-markets. |