Coastal Waste & Recycling expands recycling operations with Machinex

Coastal Waste & Recycling, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, continues investing to expand its recycling operations across Florida. The company started up two material recovery facility (MRF) systems in 2025 and has two additional systems that are scheduled to begin operations this year, having selected Machinex, headquartered in Plessisville, Quebec, to provide turnkey systems aligned with its operational needs across commercial, residential single-stream and construction and demolition (C&D) facilities.

“We are excited to open both facilities as they are important to our long-term sustainability objectives.” says Coastal CEO Brendon Pantano. “Our partnership with Machinex has been important in meeting our goals.”

The projects commissioned in 2025 are a commercial single-stream MRF in Fort Myers, Florida, and a C&D MRF in Indian River, Florida.

Commercial MRF in Fort Myers

Commissioned in fall 2025, the 20-ton-per-hour Fort Myers commercial single-stream system transformed a former dump-and-bale site into a fully integrated processing facility, Machinex says.

The system is designed to improve OCC, or old corrugated containers. quality while adding flexibility to process residential recycling alongside commercial material. It features a Back Scraping Drum, Mach Screw Screen, Mach Ballistic Separator, Mach Eddy Current and II Ram Baler, all manufactured by Machinex, allowing the MRF to produce high-quality OCC, mixed paper, ferrous and nonferrous bales.

Strengthening C&D recovery capacity in Indian River

In Indian River, Coastal expanded its strong C&D presence by adding a 100-ton-per-hour system commissioned in late summer 2025. The system incorporates a Mach Trommel and Mach Eddy Current to recover wood, OCC, ferrous, nonferrous, aggregate and recovered screen material (RSM). Machinex says it engineered a compact solution capable of meeting Coastal’s high-throughput demands.

“Our goal is never to just deliver equipment, it’s to build long-term processing solutions that grow with our partners,” says Rusty Angel, senior eastern region sales manager at Machinex. “Coastal’s continued confidence in Machinex across four Florida facilities speaks to the strength of the relationship and the performance of the systems.”

Coming this year

Coastal points to Machinex’s timeliness, efficiency and seamless project management throughout the process as key factors in expanding the companies’ relationship to include providing a commercial and residential single-stream MRF in Pompano Beach, Florida, and a C&D system in Miami this year.