A materials recovery facility (MRF) is the plant where dry mixed recycling is sorted into separate materials: screens, magnets, optical sorters and people pull out cardboard, paper, plastics, steel and aluminium so each can be sold to a reprocessor. Contaminated loads are rejected there and sent to general waste.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Related: What Is Dry Mixed Recycling?.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- Waste hierarchy
- Transfer station
- General waste
- Digital waste tracking
- Energy from waste
- Simpler Recycling
- Landfill tax
- POPs
- Commercial waste
- Wait and load
- Trade waste
- Hazardous waste consignment note
- Duty of care
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Controlled waste
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms