What is a Dirty MRF?

div clcollected at the kerbside during the recycled waste
To the uninitiated the term Dirty MRF (pronouncedcollection week for fortnighly waste collection
“murf”) sounds vaguely unpleasant,schemes, or in the recycled bins put out in weekly
maybe even insulting. Perhaps, when you first heard ithouse collection schemes.
spoken you thought the person who said it must haveThe 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 wastea combination of manual and mechanical sorting. This
processing facility, accepting deliveries from WCVoften includes a trommel screen and a magnetic
(Waste Collection Vehicles), as a mixed solid wasteseparator to remove tins and cans and other metal
stream (otherwise known as residual waste, or Blackobjects. 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 asspecifications established by end-markets.