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Attachment O Location of Materials Recovery Facility Eureka Recycling's Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is located at 2828 Kennedy Street Northeast in Minneapolis, Minnesota Eureka Recycling's MRF has been at this location and operating since February 2004. The MRF is comprised of 110,000 sq. ft. of material receiving, processing, and warehouse space, with an additional 7,000 sq. ft. of office space. These buildings are situated on seven (7) acres of property zoned for heavy industrial use. The building has an active rail -siding and dock -doors, 24'-32' clearance heights inside for vehicle unloading, and plenty of space for vehicle queueing and traffic flow. The facility's overall processing capacity is over 150,000 tons/year. Eureka Recycling has processed and sold over 967,000 tons of recyclable commodities over the past 17 years. Eureka Recycling is known and valued for the quality of the materials that we process and sell to end -market users around the region and around the country. In 2014 Eureka Recycling transitioned its MRF with the installation of equipment that allows us to sort single stream commingled recyclables. We completed two additional upgrades in 2016 (adding a scalping screen, and second eddy current and replacing our old eddy current) and in 2019 (adding a second PET optic) that brought our processing speed up to 40 — 45 tons per hour while improving the quality of our material. In early 2020 Eureka installed equipment to increase the quality of our paper —three robotic arms connected to a camera with artificial intelligence. The Al camera identifies items that should not be in the paper stream and instructs the arms remove this material. The overall residual rate (percentage of total material that is collected but cannot be recycled) at Eureka Recycling's single -stream facility is around 10%. At the same time, we maintain some of the highest quality end product to mills in the industry. As part of our Zero Waste Lab, we regularly work to understand the composition of the residual in order to identify opportunities for continued decrease the rate through a range of strategies.