recycling plant
Materials recovery facility
A recycling plant is a facility where recyclable materials—paper, plastic, glass, metal—are sorted, processed, and prepared for reuse in manufacturing.
Materials arrive mixed from collection programs and leave as bales or pellets ready for new products: The recycling plant processes twelve tons of cardboard daily.
Also called a materials recovery facility or MRF.
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
- waste managementRefuse collection and disposal
- sortingArranging into sequence
- binsReceptacles for storage
- blue binRecyclables collection container
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- factoriesfactory, car factory, toy factory, steel mill, furniture factory
- industrial sitesfactory floor, oil refinery, factories, steel mills, refinery
- sanitation systemsseptic tank, septic system, sewage system, sewer, drain
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
- metalworkingwelding, casting, forging, smithing, smelting
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Waste burial ground
dump · garbage dump · rubbish tip · incinerator · sanitary landfill
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Pollution-producing manufacturing sector
strip mine · coal plant · oil refinery · chemical plant · heavy industry
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Ore excavation site
quarry · oil refinery · drilling rig · smelter · timber mill
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