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material is predominantly a mixed organic fraction which will be mixed with yard waste and wood chips and co -composted for use as soil to sustain plant growth. Next, larger diameter holes in the trommel remove a course fraction rich in metals - predominantly cans. This material passes by an overband magnet for ferrous recovery. All remaining material proceeds to a Lindemann eddy -current separator for aluminum recovery. Permanent "super magnets" mounted on a concentric inner rotor repel aluminum beverage cans which literally "jump" into a storage bin. This system provides for excellent separation and an energy efficient design. All remaining waste is combined with the trommel discharge conveyor to a second sorting room designed to recover the following materials: newspaper, mixed paper, HDPE and PET plastic, and miscellaneous larger metallic objects. All recyclables from both sorting stations are dropped into large binned areas allowing a front end loader to push the material onto one of two baler conveyors. These materials are then compressed into dense bales -and loaded onto trucks for resale. Currently, all of the paper produced is marketed through Tenneco (PCA) where they are used to produce boxboard for products such as detergent, cereal, and pet food boxes. Ferrous scrap is sold to local scrap dealers and non-ferrous metal and plastic are brokered through PCA and sold on the spot market. All recycled material from Norton's comparable Medina County CPF has been well received in the market place since day one. PCA regards Norton's recyclable paper as more acceptable than clean MRF material. All non -recyclable items continue through the second sorting area to a large Saturn shredder producing RDF or "refuse derived fuel." It is anticipated that the RDF product will be marketed to local coal burning power producer. Norton Environmental is currently working with Ohio Edison Power Company in order to further advance the development of RDF as a substitute for coal, or wood. Additional information on the advantages of RDF is found in the next sections. While most recycling programs focus on beverage containers, the CPF extracts a material called Bulk Ferrous which includes items such as white goods, pipe, steel angle and plate, automotive parts such as brakes, springs, and gears, and small household appliances. When comparing the percentages of Bulk Ferrous to Ferrous Cans it becomes obvious that this material cannot be overlooked. Other items such as wood pallets and scrap dimensional lumber as well as mixed paper can account for healthy percentages of the recyclable stream yet do not lend themselves to curbside or blue bag recycling systems. Recycling a large percentage of the waste stream is tricky. We need to not only look at the obvious commodities such as newspaper, cardboard, plastic, and metals but create new markets for materials such as wood, organics (compost), fuel, aggregate, mixed plastic, textiles, or even highbred markets such as the production of ethanol. All of these items must be based on the individual waste stream and then tailored to site specific markets. With that in mind, the following pie chart represents Norton's goal for landfill diversion for Mixed Waste Processing: JUNE 139 1996 12 aooK 9.8 F -Au 342