Republic Services of Pennsylvania LLC, York, Pa., has announced the opening of a $1 million recycling transfer station at Modern Landfill.
Tim O’Donnell, Modern Landfill general manager, says the new facility, known as a transcyclery, is believed to be the first dedicated recycling transfer station to go into full-time operation at a landfill in the United States.
Recyclables collected in South Central Pennsylvania by the company’s York waste disposal division will be consolidated into tractor-trailer loads at the transcyclery, and then sent to Republic Services of Pennsylvania LLC’s single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) in King of Prussia, Pa.
O’Donnell says the transcyclery will handle up to five tractor-trailer loads of recyclable materials per day, the equivalent of about 70to-75 tons per day. He says he thinks the volume could go as high as 100 to-150 tons per day in the future.
The transcyclery, which was built by ECI Construction of Dillsburg, Pa., is a concrete and steel-frame structure measuring in at 34 feet high with a working floor area of 75 by 103 feet.
In the past, the tractor-trailer trucks that hauled trash the 85 miles from the waste transfer station in King of Prussia for disposal at Modern Landfill made the return trips empty. Now, according to O’Donnell, the trucks will return with recyclables for the MRF.
It’s a much more efficient and cost-effective system,” O’Donnell says. “It allows us to process the recyclables we collect from South Central Pennsylvania at our own plant in King of Prussia rather than contracting with an outside company. It’s less expensive to handle it in-house and allows us to make full use of the round trips that our trucks are making anyway. This works out much better for our customers all around.”
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