A new recycling facility in Muizenberg is on track to start operations in November next year. The new material recovery facility (MRF) will process co-mingled clean and dry recyclables so that they can be sold and used to manufacture new products.
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Once complete, the R186 million MRF, located at the Coastal Park landfill site, will have the capacity to sort 65 tonnes of recycled material per day. Engineering News reports that this will enable the City of Cape Town to extend its separation-at-source recycling collection programme in light of a current lack of sorting capacity.
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‘We are very pleased to see that the work on site is progressing so well that it is ahead of schedule,’ says Grant Twigg, City of Cape Town’s urban waste management MMC. ‘The project is the next key step in the city’s strategy to fundamentally change our relationship with waste and to minimise our city’s need for additional landfills in future. This will allow thousands more families to start cleaning and separating recyclables from their general waste for collection by the city.’
The MRF building will feature mechanical separation equipment such as a bag splitter, a magnetic separator, screens, conveyors and baling facilities. It will also house offices for city officials and a training centre for waste management education. At least 100 jobs will be generated via this project.
Additionally, the new development will feature a nine-bay drop-off facility for builders’ rubble, mixed waste, garden waste and recyclables not accepted by the MRF.
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