Charleston County, South Carolina, opens MRF

Charleston County, South Carolina, has opened a new material recovery facility (MRF) with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 1. Located in North Charleston, the county’s new MRF features 82,000 square feet of building space, including a multimedia education center, new recycling equipment, administrative offices and the county’s collections fleet.

According to a news release on the Charleston County’s website about the new MRF, the plant includes optical sorting equipment and robotics as well as fully automated scales. It has the capacity to process 25 tons of recyclables per hour.

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“Building this new recycling facility is a necessary investment in order to serve the needs of our community for many years to come,” says Charleston County Vice-Chair and Solid Waste Chairman Brantley Moody. “Our citizens will play a vital role in the success of our recycling operation. We need everyone to recycle right, keep [contaminants] out of the cart and keep recyclables out of the landfill.”

The county says it has partnered with Charleston Recycling Services to operate the MRF and process the material. Charleston Recycling Services is a division of Sweden-based CellMark Recycling, an organization that consists of a network of offices and production facilities across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, South America and Asia.