A $500,000 grant from the state of New York has helped Taylor Recycling Facility LLC open up a new $3 million construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing plant in Montgomery, N.Y.
Taylor Recycling is holding a grand opening event on April 12 to allow community members, business leaders and elected officials to visit the new 35,000 sq. ft. plant.
The grant, from the state’s Environmental Investment Program for Recycling, has helped Taylor Recycling purchase equipment to automate its C&D sorting and processing operations.
With the addition of the automated equipment, the company will go from having hand sorters sift through some 30,000 tons of debris per year to being able to sort twice that amount of material mechanically.
Taylor Recycling Facility was started in 1995 as an offshoot of Taylor Tree Co., which was founded in 1956 by James Taylor Sr.
The mechanical process should help Taylor Recycling reclaim 97 percent of the C&D materials it takes in. “Not only do we save landfill space by offering our customers a recycling alternative, we save them money as well,” says James Taylor Jr., chairman of the company. He adds that tipping fees for debris are 40 percent less at the recycling facility compared to area landfills.
The company is able to prepare and market reclaimed gypsum, cardboard, metals, wood-based mulch, topsoil, and several secondary aggregate products from the stream it takes in.
Screening equipment owned by Taylor Recycling and made by Erin Systems Inc., Portland, Maine, has been used for the past several months at the Fresh Kills landfill to help investigators search through debris resulting from the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
The company’s experience working on the project it prompted it to make a $250,000 donation to organizers of a memorial to be built to victims of the attack who lived in Orange County, N.Y., to be built in Montgomery.