Manual sortation fuels bale quality at Bay Area facility

摘要

It may have low-tech lines and buildings going back four decades, but the dual-stream MRF in Berkeley, Calif, produces clean material that meets the demands of buyers today. The quality allows Community Conservation Centers (CCC), which runs the MRF, to access overseas recycling markets others may struggle to sell into. "CCC maintains excellent material quality standards and is meeting the international inspection standards of less than 1% [contamination]," explained Jeffrey Belchamber, general manager of Berkeley Recycling (Berkeley Recycling is the business name for CCC, a nonprofit group). "In CCC's 30 years of exporting materials, CCC has never had an export load rejected."