QuinteWasteSolutions

Our Plant

Our plant or Material Recovery Facility (MRF) as it is also known, is located at 270 West Street in Trenton, Ontario. Construction on the facility was completed in 1990 and it was initially designed to process close to 8,000 metric tonnes of recycling annually. Since then the facility has been upgraded and is now processing approximately 15,000 metric tonnes a year.

The Material Recovery Facility is equipped to run two separate sort lines. One line is designated to process the mixed paper materials while the other sort line processes mixed containers. Some larger facilities have expensive automated sorting equipment that sorts the recycling with high-tech lasers and blasts of air combined with magnets and other sorts of specialized equipment. Here at our facility, we have people that sort the recycling by hand. This human element stresses the importance of making sure no harmful materials end up in your blue box.

If your group would like a tour of the facility, feel free to ask by calling our office at (613) 394-6266 or request a tour here.