What happens to the material ?
Multi-Material Collections
The materials you recycle in the blue bin or box at the kerbside are sent to a recycling facility known as a MRF. The MRF uses hi-tech machinery to separate dry recyclable material.
MRF means Materials Recovery Facility and it simply is a large shed with machinery that accepts mixed recyclable waste. The machinery sorts the material mechanically, magnetically, gravitationally and by air jets into the separate base materials which can then be sent to reprocessors to be made into new items.
For more information on the MRF, click on this link to view 'A Guide to the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).![(PDF [1.4Mb] opens in new window)](/images/PDF.gif)
This guide is an explanation of the MRF and provides information on the types of information it can sort, and where the material goes.







