• Trucks empty recyclables onto tipping floor and weigh out to determine load weight.
• Waste Handler front loader pushes material onto residential conveyor.

• Pre-sorters remove garbage, scrap metal, phone books, plastic film and large plastic items.
• Garbage conveyed to trash compactor.
• Other recyclables sorted into separate containers to await transport & baling.

• Mechanical screens separate material according to size & weight: first
• cardboard, then newspaper, then mixed paper.
• Quality control sorters remove and redirect incorrect items.
• Sorted fiber drops into storage bunkers to await baling.

• Glass, metal and plastic containers conveyed into mechanical glass screen.
  
  
  • Glass breaks to minus 2” pieces and drops onto glass conveyor
  • Glass conveyed to air classifier to remove shredded paper, which goes to trash compactor.
  • Glass conveyed to bunker to await loading.
  
  
• Magnetic belt removes steel cans, which are conveyed to silo to await baling.
• Perforator flattens plastic and aluminum containers.
• Sorters separate plastic into silos for PET, natural HDPE, colored HDPE, and other bottles.
• Eddy current separates aluminum cans.
• Residue returns to tipping floor for reprocessing.

• Sorted materials conveyed in turn from bunkers and silos to balers.
  
• Bales transported by forklift to shipping containers at loading dock.
  
• Materials shipped to domestic and international markets for processing into recycled content products.

• Lubo USA Conveyor System
• Stationery Grapple feeds materials to sorting conveyor to remove occ, plastic film, etc.
• Marathon shredder reduces materials to 24 inches.
• Magnetic belt removes metal - conveyed to load out container.
• Misting system reduces dust as needed.

• Single Stream Residential Materials
• "Two Stream" Fiber and Containers
• Mixed Commercial Fiber
• Construction, Demolition and Land clearing Debris
• Source separated fiber, containers, wood

• Fiber - primarily Pacific Rim export (10,000)
  
• Newspaper - Weyerhaeuser, Washington (1,000)
  
• Steel - Arrow Metals, King County (30)
  
• Aluminum - Anheuser Busch, Tennessee (100)
  
• Glass - Container Recycle America, Union City, California(1,700)
  
  
• Plastics (350)
  - KW Plastics
  - Merlin Plastics, British Columbia
  - AMG Resources, Washington
  - Prelumax
  
  
• Wood - Marathon Recovery, Elba, WA - composition wood & plastic building products (700)

• 82,000 sq. ft. building on approximately 6.25 acres.
  
• Tipping floor and processing area - 52,200 sq. ft.
  
• Eight loading docks for outbound trailers

• Design Throughput Capacity:
  
  28 tons/hour residential single stream
  20 tons/hour commercial mixed fiber
  10 tons/hour construction, demolition, land clearing debris (cdl)
  
  
• Average Throughput:
  
  500 tons/day (9,000 - 10,000 tons/month) residential single stream
  1500 tons/mo commercial
  100-150 tons/day (2500-3500 tons/month) cdl

Major Commercial Customers include:

• Microsoft
  
• Boeing
  
• Snohomish County

• Administrative: 2
  
• Supervisory: 2
  
• Equipment Operators, Utility workers, and maintenance: 20
  
• Sorters: 80