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Virtual Tour
Here is a photo-album of the Bluewater Recycling plant in Huron Park, Ontario. This is a graphic intensive page, so please be patient while the pictures load.
All materials delivered to the Association's Material Recovery Facility in Huron Park (near Exeter) are weighed.
The first compartment to be unloaded is paper fibres that have been collected.
The paper fibres, which include newspapers, magazines, telephone books, writing paper, cardboard, boxboard, other paper products like egg cartons, and plastic grocery bags are loaded on our in-feed conveyor with a skid steer loader.
Six people normally sort the paper fibres into acceptable grades for end markets. We typically separate them into 1) Cardboard, 2) Boxboard, 3) Plastic Bags, and 4) Mixed Newspapers (includes magazines, phone books etc.) The way you prepare the materials at the curb really helps here.
We empty the second compartment in the truck in the container receiving area where we accept the metal, plastic and glass containers.
We use a lot of mechanical tools to separate the containers based on their individual properties such as size, density, and magnetic tendencies. However the first step is to make sure the containers are not bagged, tied or too bulky so the equipment can handle it.
The steel is removed magnetically and the glass is separated by an air classification system. The aluminum is sorted by using eddy current technology and screens. The plastics are sorted by hand into three separate resins PET, HDPE and mixed tubs.
Every material processed by the Association, except glass, is then baled and stored indoors away from the elements to ensure a superior marketable commodity. While we prefer to sell our materials locally in Ontario, many go to the US and some overseas as far as China where their growing economy has a huge appetite for the types of resources we have.
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