How a materials recovery facility will sort flexible plastics

Flexible packaging isn’t going away anytime soon, and an upcoming pilot project seeks to ensure it doesn’t go to landfill.

In the coming months, additional sorting equipment will be installed at the Total Recycle materials recovery facility (MRF) in Birdsboro, Pa. The retrofit will allow the facility to begin generating bales of post-consumer flexible packaging, defined as single-layer or multi-material films such as chip bags, stand-up pouches, candy wrappers, retail bags and more.

Read more in the article by Jared Paben from Resource Recycling...