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MRFs general information

Here’s some information intended to give you answers to initial/start-up questions.
MRF start-up questions


* Building sizes allow for adequate incoming and recovered product storage
** Excludes building acquisition/construction and planning

For ideas on sorting numbers and prices, please contact us with details of your MRF project and we can help. Click here for Contacts page

Before building a MRF you also need to consider:

  1. Building/Land Acquisition: We’ll give you the exact footprint needed. Sourcing the building/land will be down to you
  2. Planning Permission: You will need to determine whether you need planning permission and to acquire it as necessary
  3. Waste License: You will need to apply for this
  4. Power: We’ll give you the power requirements of the MRF. You will need to ensure the building has sufficient power
  5. MRF Captial budget: We can build to any budget. You will need to identify a budget for the equipment
  6. Interest on loans: You will need to allow for this in your operating costs>
  7. Sorting staff: We can advise you on sorting levels. You will need to allow for their costs in your operating costs
  8. MRF Running costs: We can advise you on running costs. You will need to allow for these in your operating costs (electricity, maintenance, cleaning, servicing, parts, consumables etc)
  9. Ancilliary equipment: We can advise you what vehicles you will need. Sourcing them will be down to you
  10. Incoming Materials: You will have to arrange delivery/deliver these to the MRF
  11. Markets: You will need to identify your end markets for the recovered products

What we need from you in order to make a proposal:

  1. A definition of the incoming material e.g. commingled or kerbside materials, skip waste, MSW etc.
  2. A throughput (the rate at which the incoming materials are to be loaded into the MRF) e.g. 10 tonnes per hour or 32,000 tonnes per yea or 20 skips/40-foot trailers per day etc
  3. The intended operating hours/shift pattern e.g. 1 x 10-hour shift, 2 x 8-hour shifts, 24-hour working
  4. A list of the products you want to recover e.g. News, card, PET, ferrous, timber, aggregates (required purity rates are helpful too)
  5. A footprint e.g. 42m x 19m x 7.5m
  6. An idea on when you plan to start up the MRF