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MONCATAR, MERRY MARIELLE M.

ENCH5A

MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY

A Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) is where recyclable materials that are collected from households are sorted into different types (e.g. plastics, cardboard, paper, metal) using a mixture of manual and automated methods. When the materials have been sorted they are sent to reprocessors and manufacturers where they are used to create new products. It is important to have a MRF to sort mixed materials and to ensure that we can remove anything that is not recyclable. The process also helps to provide quality recyclables that manufacturers need to make certain products and goods. If they could not rely on the quality of the recyclables they would need to use more raw materials. A materials recovery facility (MRF) is a specialised plant that can use mechanical or manual sorting processes (or a combination) to separate and prepare bulk recyclable materials for on sale. Recyclables are generally collected as part of a kerbside collection service and may include glass bottles, steel or aluminium cans, paper and cardboard, and plastic containers.1 MRF facilities are generally privately owned and operated. The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or Republic Act 9003 instructs all Local Government Units (LGU) to disperse garbage collection. Being the smallest unit of government, the barangay is responsible of teaching occupants to segregate, collecting their trash and separating reusable trash from residual trash. The law requires a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) which is a key to distributing waste management for each barangay. It is where all trash produced by the barangay is sorted into recyclables, organic waste, and non-recyclables or residual waste. Brgy. Sto. Cristo, District 1, Quezon City In Quezon City, only 42 out of 142 barangays have an MRF, considering it is the largest city in Metro Manila and it allots a big amount to waste management. Brgy. Sto. Cristo of Quezon City is one of those barangays who complied with the Act. The piles of garbage were being collected by the workers of the MRF through the use of a motorcycle cart. Different types of trash and waste have their designated day of collection. All of the segregated garbage were then brought to the barangay MRF where each kind of trash is put into its own compartments, such as carton boxes/paper, straws and plastic bottles, tin and aluminium cans, and hazardous wastes. Organic composting is also practiced in this barangay’s MRF. One of our groupmates has talked with one of the councilors of Brgy. Sto Cristo: Kagawad Victor “Jun” Ferrer, where he imparted some knowledge about this MRF. (with special participation of Mr. Charles Kevin Taran). Recyclables like bottles, plastics, carton, metals and paper are also sold to junk shops, while the hazardous wastes are being picked up by the local

government and treated proper waste management. Some stuff are also recycled such as the plastic bottles as decorations and improvised pots in the school beside the MRF.

REFERENCES https://ce131group3thr1stsem1516.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/brgy-sto-cristo-mrf-vs-brgyup-campus-mrf-looking-for-similarities-and-differences/ https://www.veolia.co.uk/nottinghamshire/facilities-services/facilities-services/materialsrecovery-facility https://www.wasteminz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/MRF-Guidelines-130730-consultationdocument1.pdf