2005 Recycling Pilot Program Report

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2'CMRF Singde-Sort Constituent Test INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE Recycle America Alliance (RAA) and Waste Management (WM} condncted a test at the T�in Cities Materials Recovery Facility (TCMRF) on October 18, 2003 to better define the constit�tents of "sin�gle-sort" collection and processing. The TCMRF is axx integrated facility accepting materials from several types of collection styles (streams). The process lines are linked and various streams are processed concuirently on the process lines during normal operations. Therefore, a separate n�nning of just singie-sort material was required to classify constiiuenis and process results for this stream. DESCRIPTION OF TEST PROCEDURES Receipt of Test Materials: WM colJection operations were instnunental in delivering single-sort materials to the TCMRF on a Saturday morning fo:r a separate test ru.n of this stream. The test materials were collected through the course of normal collection operaiions on Friday, October 17, 2003 and held over for delivery to the TCMRF on Saturday, October 1$, 2003. In ordez to provzde a reference test for single-sort collection and processing, only materials collected in a fashion representing WM's representation of "single-sort" in the Twin Cities market were delivered. The following are key points in this definition: • Materials are designated for recycling by the resident an.d separated from waste items. In other words the materials a.re source-separated �ar recycling purposes. • Materials are placed in a cart for collection. The cart may be of differing size (32, 64, 96 gallon) de�ending on the prcference of the resident but the cart has an integral lid. • Materials are collected in either an automatic or semi-autom.atic collection vehicle. • The collect�on vehicle has one chamber for the combined materials with a compaction rate of four to one. TABLE 1— MATERIAL RECEIPTS FOR TEST ON OCTOBER 18, 2003 Truck �nbound Wei ht Outbound Wei E�t Net Wei ht Tons Ori 'n 1 48,524 36,000 6.26 Brooki Center 2 42,600 35,740 3_43 Brookl Center 3 46,SOQ 34 4G0 6.02 Broakl Centez 4 41,580 36,56U 2.51 Brookl Center 5 46,250 34,120 6.07 Lino Lakes 6 47,Ci40 35,800 5_92 Bzookl Center 7 45,420 38,000 3.71 Eden Prairie 8 47,900 31,96U 7.97 Bloomin ton 9 51,580 36,280 7.65 Bloomin ton 10 52 98� 38,160 7.41 Richfield 11 35,360 27,560 3.90 West Lakeland 12 34,060 27,900 3.08 Centerville 13 39,380 27,960 5.71 Robbinsdale 14 44,920 32,660 6.13 Circle Pines