[CPEO-BIF] Waste Management opens Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recovery facility

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Waste Management opens Philadelphia recovery facility

American Recycler
May, 2011
Waste Management celebrated the launch of its Philadelphia Material  
Recovery Facility (MRF), located in Northeast Philadelphia.

Waste Management invested over $20 million to create one of the most  
advanced single-stream technology plants in operation at a former  
brownfield site. The Philadelphia MRF is the largest such facility in  
the region and can sort and process more than 20,000 tons of  
recyclable newspaper, cardboard, aluminum, glass and plastic each  
month. The plant also captures materials that were historically  
discarded, such as film plastic and rigid plastics, expanding the  
range of materials that can be recycled.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.americanrecycler.com/0511/958waste.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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