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  2. Where can I recycle in Louisville? Here are drop off ... - AOL

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    Sun Valley Community Center, 6505 Bethany Lane Staffed Recycling Drop-Off Locations, open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday Central Government Center , 7201 Outer Loop

  3. Transfer station (waste management) - Wikipedia

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    These larger vehicles will transport the waste to the end point of disposal in an incinerator, landfill, or hazardous waste facility, or for recycling. Transfer stations can be publicly or privately owned. They vary in size, from small regional sites managing less than 1000 tonnes/year to large sites managing over 200,000 tonne/year. [1]

  4. Materials recovery facility - Wikipedia

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    A materials recovery facility for the recycling of domestic waste Clean materials recovery facility recycling video. A materials recovery facility, materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility or multi re-use facility (MRF, pronounced "murf") is a specialized waste sorting and recycling system [1] that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end ...

  5. Recycling - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Converting waste materials into new products This article is about recycling of waste materials. For recycling of waste energy, see Energy recycling. "Recycled" redirects here. For the album, see Recycled (Nektar album). The three chasing arrows of the universal recycling symbol ...

  6. Recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Stanolind Recycling Plant was in operation as early 1947. [32] Another early recycling mill was Waste Techniques, built in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania in 1972. [citation needed] Waste Techniques was sold to Frank Keel in 1978, and resold to BFI in 1981. Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first city in the United States to mandate recycling. [33]

  7. Single-stream recycling - Wikipedia

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    Materials recovery facility in Montgomery County, Maryland. Single-stream (also known as “fully commingled” or "single-sort") recycling refers to a system in which all paper fibers, plastics, metals, and other containers are mixed in a collection truck, instead of being sorted by the depositor into separate commodities (newspaper, paperboard, corrugated fiberboard, plastic, glass, etc ...

  8. Look inside the overhauled Tri-Cities postal sorting center ...

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    Now called the Pasco Sorting and Delivery Center, the facility serves more than 100,000 addresses in seven Tri-Cities zip codes, including Burbank, Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and West Richland.

  9. Waste sorting - Wikipedia

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    Waste sorting is the process by which waste is separated into different elements. [1] Waste sorting can occur manually at the household and collected through curbside collection schemes, or automatically separated in materials recovery facilities or mechanical biological treatment systems.