New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has broken ground on a new Sims Metal Management Municipal Recycling material recovery facility (MRF) that is being built to serve as the principal processing facility for all of the city's metal, glass and plastic recyclables.
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| Mayor Bloomberg breaks ground on a new Sims Municipal Recycling Facility that will serve as the principal processing facility for all of the City’s metal, glass, and plastic recyclables. (Photo Credit: Spencer T Tucker) |
The recycling facility is part of New York City’s Solid Waste Management Plan, which establishes a system for managing the city's solid waste for the next 20 years. The facility, located at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park, will minimize the distance that collection trucks travel between pickup sites and receiving centers. The location also allows Sims to expand its barge and rail-based transport systems as well as to create 100 jobs when the facility is opened, which is expected in December 2011.
"This recycling facility will reduce the distance that our collection trucks currently travel by more than 260,000 road miles each year by allowing recyclables to be delivered by barge," Bloomberg says in a press release. "This will help advance two of the biggest goals of PlaNYC: cleaning the air we breathe and shrinking our city's carbon footprint. The Sims recycling facility will also help us revive Brooklyn's working waterfront."
PlaNYC is the city’s comprehensive sustainability plan for New York City’s future.
Sims Metal Management is investing $44 million to create the new 100,000-square-foot facility, which will include processing and storage buildings and a visitor education center. The facility will receive collections from Brooklyn by no more than 100 trucks per day, while the remainder of the city's metal, glass and plastic recyclables will be delivered to the facility via barge from two existing Sims facilities in the Bronx and Queens. The facility will operate 24 hours per day, six days per week.
Currently, New York City spends more than $90 million per year to deliver recyclables collected by the Department of Sanitation to facilities in the Bronx, Queens and Jersey City, N.J. The city is investing more than $80 million on infrastructure upgrades to support the development of the Sims facility and an adjacent auto processing and cargo handling facility for the Axis Group, currently under construction.
"We are excited to break ground on what will be the most advanced municipal recycling in the country," says Robert Kelman, president of commercial and business development, Sims Metal Management - North America. "Over the past six years, we have had the support and cooperation of numerous individuals, organizations and government entities. Without their contributions we would not be here today.”
Kelman adds, “Between the city and our investments, we will be putting approximately $80 million into the 30th Street pier and will utilize the best available technologies from around the world, creating up to 100 new jobs that, with all of our 230 locations around the world, will be good quality jobs that will make an important contribution to the sustainability of our city."
Sims Metal Management Municipal Recycling is a subsidiary of New York City-based Sims Metal Management.
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