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ECUA Recycling Facility Reopens Monday; Recycling Returns Thursday For ECUA Customers
September 26, 2022
After a supply chain delay, a belt needed to restart the ECUA Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) has arrived.
The recycling facility was closed in June after the equipment failure.
ECUA will reopen the facility on Monday, accepting recyclables from other partners. The first recycling materials processed from ECUA customers on Thursday, September 29.
While waiting on the repair parts, ECUA used the downtime to conduct extensive maintenance activities at the MRF that would generally require a facility shutdown. We have replaced rollers, bearings, tail pulleys, hydraulic maintenance, as well as replacement of 13 other belts, and assorted other maintenance work.
During the downtime, ECUA landfilled all of the recyclables collected.
Pictured: A replacement belt is installed on machinery inside the ECUA Materials Recycling Facility. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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2 Responses to “ECUA Recycling Facility Reopens Monday; Recycling Returns Thursday For ECUA Customers”
I’m not sure if they are on the plus side of the books. I can see corrugated recycling being profitable as long as it is clean material and I’m sure most of it isn’t good, clean corrugated. I saw all of stuff being dropped of at the city recycling centers and I’m sure the stuff at the county recycling places was the same.
I worked in the packaging industry and the paper mills or plastic manufacturers were very careful of what was permitted to into their plants as recycled material. Just imagine the production problems if you were a film manufacturer and a piece of contaminant got stuck in your extruder. You’re shut down for hours to get the operation going again.
I agree something needs to be done to try to reuse packaging materials. But just to say you have a recycling system to satisfy the environmentalists, probably isn’t correct.
The “cash cow” is moooo’n again…