The Recycling System: Value Chains, Collection, MRFs, & Markets - Practitioner

Course Overview

This short course offers a broad introduction to fiber recovery infrastructure including a value chain overview, a history and evolution of recycled fiber collection, MRF sortation practices, markets, and national trend impacts. Discussions focus on the overall recovery system and the implications of best practice fiber management and mismanagement, MRF equipment organization, MRF schematic layouts and how the different designs impact the recovery of all waste derived commodities. The economics of fiber capture and recycling are evaluated and discussed from both a first order and second order level.

Designed for new facility engineers, system designers skilled technicians, and industry analysts in the recycling industry.

Learning Objectives

• Strengthen understanding of fiber recovery infrastructure and impacts on the value chain
• Understand broad spectrum of MRF design, and sorting technologies
• Understand the impacts of fiber supply based on fiber demand, and how market fluctuations affect MRFs
• Understand how national trends influence fiber demand