Seven Steps of

Sorting at a Visy Household recycling collection delivered to Materials Recovery Facility

Material Recovery
Facility (MRF)

1. Pre-Sort RECYCLABLES 1. MANUAL

MRF staff manually ENTER HERE PRE-SORT
2. STAR SCREEN
remove contamination
SORTING
(eg. plastic bags). PAPER &
CARDBOARD
2. Star Screen Sorting SORTING
fans and a series of shafts
fitted with rotating star
shaped discs propel paper and OPTICAL
cardboard forward, while PAPER &
PLASTIC
bottles, cans and containers 2. ANGLED STAR SORTING
fall backwards. SCREEN

3. Glass
sent for further sorting
by colour.
3.
TO GLASS
4. Magnets SORTING
rotating magnets FACILITY 4. STEEL
pick up steel cans. MAGNET

5. Eddy Currents 7. MANUAL & 6. OPTICAL SORTING

an electromagnet field GLASS
repels aluminium cans off the 5. EDDY CRUSHER
conveyor belt. CURRENT

6. Optical Sorting TO
infrared sensors and air jets PAPER
sort plastic types 1 and 2 (PET MILL
and HDPE respectively).

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

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