Prince George’s County, Maryland, officials celebrated the modernizing of one of their recycling facilities Wednesday afternoon.
The upgrades allow the county to produce higher quality materials for recycling and even make more money off the materials because they are less contaminated.
Recycling trucks are weighed before they back in tons of recycled materials into the Prince George’s County Materials Recycling Facility, or MRF. This is a non-stop process throughout the day.
“On a daily basis, we take in 250 tons per day,” said Michael Bell, senior operations manager at the facility. “We take in over 60,000 tons per year, and we process over 555 to 58,000 tons per year.”
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