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The MRWMD Material Recovery Facility is, in many ways, the heart of the District as it is where most of the materials that we recover, reuse and recycle are collected.
For more details about the MRF and the entire Monterey Regional Waste Management District go to http://www.MRWMD.org
The Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) opened in April 1996 in response to state law AB939, which required cities and counties to reduce their waste 50% by the year 2000. The $9.6 million facility was designed to process construction and demolition debris, as well as to complement the recycling collected from homes and businesses. Over the last 20 years, the MRF has diverted more than 1.6 million tons of recyclable and reusable materials from landfill disposal.
The MRF diverts 50% of the incoming mixed waste through reuse and recycling. Unlike residential and commercial recycling programs that collect source separated materials only, the MRF annually processes more than 100,000 tons of mixed waste that arrives in debris boxes, dumpsters, pick-up trucks, and trailers. The MRF also receives source separated green waste and wood scraps, which are the raw materials for making compost and wood chips.
To keep up with new regulatory mandates and to continue to ensure compliance for member agencies, work will commence in 2017 on an $18 million MRF Improvement Project. Construction of the facility began in February with completion by October 2017.
MRF improvements will help ensure that the District member agencies achieve the state’s 75 percent diversion goal by 2020 and the ban on landfill disposal of commercial food scraps. The facility will also support local construction industry compliance with the 65% recycling requirement defined in the CalGreen building code that is effective January 1, 2017.
We also remove items from the MRF that can be sold through our Last Chance Mercantile store, create organic compost for the community and the area’s farms from lawn and landscaping waste and timber, and sell mattresses and appliances to specialty recyclers. Even the soil that is collected is reused – to cover the landfill each evening.
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