Rumpke Waste & Recycling has opened its $100 million, 226,000-square-foot MRF in Columbus, Ohio. Rumpke says the facility is North America's "largest and most technologically-advanced."
"The future of recycling is now. Our Rumpke Recycling & Resource Center ensures enough recycling capacity to serve the long-term needs as the region's commercial development continues and the population tops an estimated 3 million," said Andrew Rumpke, president at Rumpke Waste & Recycling.
The facility which processes material from 50 Ohio counties fuels the local circular economy. More than 90 percent of the material processed at the Rumpke Recycling & Resource Center goes to end-users in Ohio.
The facility will increase Rumpke's processing capability from 160,000 tons of material to 250,000 tons annually. It increases material processing speed to a minimum of 60 tons per hour versus 30 tons per hour and will increase the material recovery rate to 98 percent.
Rumpke wanted the facility built with eventual upgrades in mind. Cranes inside the facility allow for equipment upgrades as future technology comes online and the composition of recycling material changes.
This material recovery facility includes 19 optic sorters, artificial intelligence, ballistic separators, and trommel equipment. The recycling centre has three tipping floors totalling 48,000 square feet. The main 32,000 square foot tipping area is for residential material, the second 11,000 square foot tipping floor is for commercial material, and a third 5,000 square foot tipping floor is for material sampling and auditing which quickly provides municipal and commercial customers with a thorough evaluation of their recycling efforts, added Rumpke.
