Rumpke Sees Return on $6 Million Recycling Plant Upgrade

Date: April 13, 2010

Source: Rumpke Consolidated Companies

Rumpke Consolidated (Cincinnati, OH) has begun operating its recycling plant in St. Bernard following a $6 million upgrade. The newer single-stream facility employs rotating disks, optical sorters and computer's to monitor the system's speed and efficiency in real time. The facility is already twice as efficient and productive as its predecessor and is expected to sort 50 tons per hour once fully operational. The system can now recover 97 percent of all materials that enter the facility. Before, it was 93 percent. (The industry average is 90 percent). This will be crucial since during the six months of the plant's conversion, the company baled and warehoused more than 10,000 tons of material to be processed once the new plant came on line. The company says that its next mission is to educate the public about the 60 percent of waste currently discarded in the trash that could be recycled instead.

In this effort, the company launched a new website: www.RumpkeCleanandGreen.com.

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