Seven Steps of

Sorting at a Visy
Material Recovery
Facility (MRF)
1. Pre-Sort
MRF staff manually
remove contamination
(eg. plastic bags).

Household recycling collection delivered to Materials Recovery Facility

1. MANUAL
PRE-SORT

RECYCLABLES
ENTER HERE

2. STAR SCREEN
SORTING
PAPER &
CARDBOARD
SORTING

2. Star Screen Sorting

fans and a series of shafts
fitted with rotating star
shaped discs propel paper and
cardboard forward, while
bottles, cans and containers
fall backwards.

OPTICAL
PAPER &
PLASTIC
SORTING

2. ANGLED STAR
SCREEN

3. Glass
sent for further sorting
by colour.

4. Magnets
rotating magnets
pick up steel cans.

5. Eddy Currents
an electromagnet field
repels aluminium cans off the
conveyor belt.

3.
TO GLASS
SORTING
FACILITY

4. STEEL
MAGNET

7. MANUAL & 6. OPTICAL SORTING

5. EDDY
CURRENT

6. Optical Sorting

TO
PAPER
MILL

infrared sensors and air jets

sort plastic types 1 and 2 (PET
and HDPE respectively).

Manual Sorting
MRF staff manually sort the
other plastic types (3 to 7).

GLASS
CRUSHER

MIXED
PLASTICS

HDPE

PET

1300 368 479 Email: customerservice@visy.com.au www.visy.com.au