• Route trucks and trailer loads of mixed recyclables weigh in at automated Mettler-Toledo scale system
• Toledo Unattended Automated Date Terminal captures vehicle data and weight from readers mounted in trucks

• 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 (primarily plastic bags, trays, packaging) is conveyed to trash. compactor
• Removed recyclables are put in separate containers to await transport & baling.

• Mechanical screens remove fiber from mixed recyclables by size & weight:
  
  
  • first cardboard
  • then newspaper
  • then mixed paper
  
  
• Quality control sorters remove and redirect incorrect items from each fiber line.
• Sorted fiber drops into storage bunkers to await baling.

• Glass, metal and plastic containers are conveyed into mechanical glass screen.
  
  
  • Glass breaks to minus 2” pieces and drops onto glass conveyor
  • Broken glass is conveyed to air classifier for vacuum removal of shredded paper and caps, which go to trash compactor.
  • Vacuumed glass is conveyed to bunker to await loading.
  • Magnetic belt removes steel cans, which are conveyed to silo to await baling.
  • Sorters separate plastic into silos for PET, natural HDPE, colored HDPE, and other bottles and dairy tubs.
  • Eddy current separates aluminum cans.
  • Residue returns to mixed paper screen for reprocessing.

• Sorted materials conveyed from bunkers and silos to balers.
  
• Bales are transported by forklift to shipping containers at loading dock.
  
• Materials are 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.

• Single stream residential and commercial recyclables
• Construction, Demolition and Land clearing Debris
• Source separated fiber, containers, wood

• Fiber - primarily Pacific Rim (9,000 - 72%)
  
• Steel - Arrow Metals, Woodinville (250 - 3%)
  
• Aluminum Cans- Anheuser Busch, Tennessee (80 - 1%)
  
• Glass (1,300 - 16%)
  
  • RL Clearing, Federal Way, WA
  • Ecullet, Seattle, WA
    
  
  
• Plastics (240 - 3%) end markets include:
  
  • KW Plastics.Bakersfield, CA
    
  • Merlin Plastics, British Columbia
    
  
  
• Wood - industrial fuel (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 (12-13,000 tons/month residential single stream
  500 tons/mo commercial
  300-400 tons/day (6500-8500 tons/month) cdl

• 250+ inbound truckloads/day

Major Commercial Customers include:

• Microsoft
  
• Boeing
  
• Snohomish County

• Administrative and supervisory: 7
  
• Equipment operators, utility workers, and maintenance: 26
  
• Sorters: 80