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Action Environmental Solutions
Material Recovery Facility (MRF)

 
Action Environmental Solutions, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Action Carting Environmental Services, opened in June 2009. This 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility located in the Bronx is the largest recycling facility of its kind in the area. It has the capability to sort five different materials at one time: paper, cardboard, aluminum, plastic, and glass. Currently the facility handles 200-300 tons daily adding up to approximately 5,000 to 6,000 tons monthly but we are looking to increase that amount to 10,000 tons monthly. The sorting line has eight chutes using both automated and manual sorting. The manual belt moves at a speed of approximately thirty feet per minute. It has pause and resume buttons to ensure the capture of majority of the recyclable material.


Action Environmental Solutions set out not only to better the environment itself but also the economic environment of the area by making it a point to hire local employees with the help of the New York City Econmic Development Corporation and in cooperation with the Manhattan Courts.
 
Action Carting Environmental Solutions has sixteen cardboard routes and two paper routes consisting of 4,461 stops and also have comingled tops that unload at the material recovery facility. These loads are brought to the tipping station at Action Environmental Solution where they drop the contents of their load. The load is placed near the appropriate conveyer belt depending on if it is a commingled load, a commodity    specific load, and also depending on the specific commodity. 

 

A payloader transfers the loads from the tipping station to the appropriate conveyer belt depending on the contents of their load. Here workers cut bags, twine, and other material binding the materials together. Preliminary sorting begins where large pieces of cardboard are directly transferred to the next conveyer belt for compaction. Commingled loads are carried   along a ‘shaker’ which is a belt that shakes small residual material or other recyclables to proceed to the following conveyer belt.
 

 The materials ‘shaken’ out of the load proceed onto a conveyer belt with an assembly line of workers. These workers are each assigned a commodity, such as plastic, newspaper, office paper, glass, residual, etc., and set out to remove these materials from the remaining loads. They place these commodities in bins below for future compaction or recycling. This conveyer belt has a pull cord to stop and start the conveyer belt to ensure the majority of the recyclables are removed. 
 

 
Once the bins that the hand sorters drop their assigned commodity into becomes full, they set up the conveyer belts for compaction of those specific commodities. For example when the hand sorter assigned to office paper fills his bin, a pay loader will take that material and push it onto the conveyer belt where the end product will be a bale of office paper only.
  

The remaining load from the hand sorting conveyer goes through an eddy current which separates the aluminum. The aluminum is then baled and prepared for shipment. 

Along the conveyer belt the workers and the magnets have sorted out all the material for proper baling operation. These materials are then loaded into a compactor which compresses the materials into bales for proper shipment.
  

 
       

After the bales have been created they are loaded onto an oversea container. Action Environmental Solution loads trucks that transport these bales to the port where there are loaded onto ships. These ships bring the bales to domestic and international companies and mills in demand of recycled material.
 
         

One of the main uses for our baled paper and cardboard are for processing new packaging for electronics and pizza boxes. Notebooks, stationary, and even pens can be made from recycled cardboard and paper. With the growing popular trend of recycled products bags, hats, water bottles, and mugs are being set out to be made from reprocessed plastics. Here at Action we make it a point to use recycled pads, bags, stationary, and brochures.


Action Environmental Solutions has the ability to handle 10,000 tons of recyclable material a month saving approximately over 300,000 square yards of landfill space per year. On average 2,500 tons of paper, 7,000 tons of cardboard, and 500 tons of glass, aluminum, and plastic are processed each month. This facility helps take reusable material and save trees, oil, and ore while saving energy, reducing pollution, and decreasing green house gases.