Single-Stream Recycling at Waste Management Recycle America's Elkridge MRF

http://www.wm.com/ Waste Management Recycle America's single-stream recycling programs, available in many communities, allow residents to put all their recyclables into a single bin and let our advanced sorting technology do all the sorting. This video is a tour of the sorting process at the Waste Management Recycle America single-stream recycling facility in Elkridge, Maryland.

To learn more information about Waste Management visit http://www.wm.com/ or http://thinkgreen.com/.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Recycle America
• Waste Management
• WMRA
• WM
• Elkridge
• Maryland
• single stream recycling
• recycle
• MRF
• materials recovery facility
• Think Green

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[wmcares]

Hi rosak9a,

Thanks for taking the time to watch our video and share your thoughts. I’m with customer service at Waste Management and would be happy to help answer your question regarding single-stream recycling at the Elkridge facility. Please feel free to email me at jnewman1@wm.com so that we can discuss this in further detail.

Thanks,

Julie

[rosak9a]

At 27 seconds it states that "plastic bags containing recyclable materials are opened in the pre-sort area and emptied onto the conveyor". But I live in Frederick County, where the single stream recycling program (which uses this WMRA facility) explicitly states that bagged materials are NOT accepted for recycling, since the sorting facility cannot process them. Can anyone explain this conflicting information?