Casella, CP Manufacturing Collaborate on Single-Stream Facility

CP Manufacturing, San Diego, has installed a new single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) for Casella in Rutland, Vt. The 30,000-ton-per-year Zero-Sort facility is now in full operation and is expected to drive improved recycling rates in the surrounding communities of Vermont as well as from Glens Falls, N.Y., all the way south to Concord, N.H., the companies say.
 

Casella's Zero-Sort recycling program is designed to simplify the recycling process by using an all-in-one bin. The purpose of the Zero-Sort facility is to educate customers by helping them understand the recycling process as a whole, including what happens to their recyclables, how recyclables are processed, and what they become after being recycled. 
 

Many of Casella’s MRFs have education rooms on site for visitors to see and understand how the system works and the purpose. Zero-Sort, Casella’s brand of single-stream recycling, was trademarked in 2008. The 57,000 square-foot Zero-Sort Rutland facility started as a 7,800-ton-per-year dual-stream system. 
 

“We chose CP based on the concept, equipment durability, technology along with the design partnership," Bob Cappadona, Casella Recycling vice president, says. "We are very pleased with the overall performance of the new equipment."

 

CP Manufacturing built and installed the triple-deck OCCScreen, two NEWScreens, a Glass Breaker Screen, magnetic separators and three sorting lines. Recyclables that are processed in the facility include mixed paper, cardboard (OCC), cartons, plastic, glass, ferrous and nonferrous metals. 
 

“An integral part of Casella’s Zero-Sort program is the ability to produce a high-quality commodity—all done through the beginning stages of design, technology and MRF management expertise,” Cappadona says.  
 

Casella is a fully integrated company that owns and operates material recovery facilities and landfills and offers hauling services. Casella also harvests methane gas from its landfills as a way to produce power.
 

CP Manufacturing is a division of the CP Group. The CP Group designs, manufactures and installs material recovery facilities for single-stream recycling, municipal solid waste, waste to energy, green waste and e-scrap internationally. 

 

More information can be found at www.theCPgrp.com.