Material Recovery Facility (MRF)

A materials recovery facility (MRF), sometimes called materials reclamation facility or materials recycling facility, is a plant that separates and prepares singlestream recycling materials to be sold end to end buyers.
An MRF is an essential component of any city’s residential and commercial singlestream recycling program as more cities and municipalities across the India. In fact, a survey conducted by The Recycling Partnership in 2016 found that 82% of curbside of recycling programs are now single-stream.
This shift toward single-stream is putting the onus on residents and business owners alike to sort their recyclables, and has been proven to be a boon in terms of increasing the sheer quantity of recyclable materials being diverted from landfills. A 2018 poll found that two-thirds of INDIANS agreed with the statement “If a product is not easy/convenient for me to recycle, I probably would not recycle it.” Which is to say, the job of a materials recovery facility is only going to get more important as time goes on.
Once recyclables are picked from the curb - on the trash day, they are generally transported to MRF.
MRF is an essential Facility of any city’s residential and commercial single-stream recycling program.
More and more cities and municipalities across India are moving towards singlestream recycling.

Materials Recovery Facilities sort a wide array of recyclable materials, including, but not limited to: