The Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County, Allegheny, Pa., has approved a plan to sell a brownfield site near Pittsburgh to Waste Management Inc. (WMI). WMI expects to convert the open land to a single-stream material recovery facility (MRF).
Patrick Early, the authority’s development division manager, says WMI will convert the roughly 23 acres into a recycling facility that will be designed to process recyclables from western Pennsylvania as well as parts of Ohio and West Virginia.
The new facility is expected to measure40,000 square feet, and the development costs will range from $10 to $15 million, Early adds. He says the construction on the MRF should begin by early 2012 and be complete by the end of the fourth quarter of 2012 or first quarter of 2013. When fully operational, the facility is expected to employ about 30 people.
The facility will be similar to WMI’s recently opened Philadelphia MRF, though Early says the Pittsburgh MRF will be much smaller.
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