Mixed Rigid Plastics (MRP)
If you wish to recycle
Mixed Rigid Plastics (MRP)
Please ADD your wanted or available inquiries to the Curbside Separation and Recovered MRF Materials Exchange.
Mixed Rigid Plastics (MRP) are the materials, commonly collected from Municipal Curbside Recycling Programs
and accumulated at MRFs (Material Recovery Facilities),
that consist of post-consumer plastic bottles and containers, and may include
plastics
in the categories #1 PET, #2 HDPE, #3 VINYL, #4 LDPE, #5 PP, #6 PS and #7 Other.
This grade may not contain flexible materials such as plastic
bags.
Plastic Bag Recycling
While Plastic Bags and flexible plastic films are fully recyclable and a highly sought after commodity,
many
Municipal Recycling Programs
choose to reject these materials.
The sorting and processing equipment utilized at many Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs)
are not compatible for the material handling of plastic bags and flexible plastic films since the bags
wind around the sorting equipment and clog-up the process flow.
As a result of Municipal Recycling Programs refusing to accept plastic bags a common false misbelief that
plastic bags are not recyclable has been perpetuated.
Small Plastic Items
Items such as plastic drinking straws, plastic bottle caps and numerous other plastic items
are grouped together and classed as undersized based on their screening size.
While the plastics contained in these small items are recyclable and a highly sought after commodity,
many Municipal Recycling Programs choose to reject these materials.
The equipment utilized at many
Material Recovery Facilities
(MRFs)
are not compatible for the material handling of small plastic items and smalls and they are typically screened out
in order to be able to sort container sized bottles in the process flow.
As a result of Municipal Recycling Programs refusing to accept these small plastic items a common false misbelief that
these plastics are not recyclable has been perpetuated.
MRF Plastics Processing
Municipal Recycling Programs that refuse or reject
Plastic Bags
and
Small Plastic Items
from the pool of recovered materials, substantially reduce the potential overall recovery rates.
If Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) are designed to eliminate large fractions of the available plastic wastes,
this will impact
up to 1%
of the total wastestream.
Multi-Year Spot Market Price Summary
Annual price summary of
Mixed Rigid Plastics
and other
Recovered MRF Materials
collected in Municipal Curbside Recycling Programs.
Historical high, low and yearly average spot market prices by specific grade of material.
Alliance to End Plastic Waste
A not-for-profit organization with the mission to Eliminate Plastic Waste in the Environment.
Friday, 21-Jan-2022 14:56:01 EST - File No: 4090