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For the past three years, Norton Environmental has been marketing all of the paper and recyclables through the Tenneco (PCA). PCA has expressed great interest in our project and they have agreed to market the following recyclables: old corrugated containers (OCC), old newspaper (ONP), mixed paper (Mix), HDPE plastic, PET plastic, and aluminum beverage cans (UBC). PCA is currently purchasing all such material from Norton's Medina County CPF and has never rejected a load of its recyclables. PCA regards the recyclable paper products as cleaner than that of a traditional or "clean" MRF. The reason is quite understandable. Norton uses a positive sort, meaning the desired material is pulled out of the waste stream and recovered. Any material which is missed becomes fuel. Most clean MRF's use a negative sort where contaminants are removed and product is allowed to pass. Any contaminant missed remains with the product stream and therefore adds a level of contamination to the baled product. PCA also has experience with blue bag recycling systems and avoids this material altogether as materials such as glass actually contaminate the paper within the blue bag. While a limited amount of contaminants such as plastic or metal can be screened out in the hydropulper, imbedded glass cannot be removed. Norton Environmental plans to work with local markets or we could market the material through PCA. The following is a short list for recyclable material and markets available through the Mixed Waste Process: White Goods and Scrap Metal The CPF will be able to receive white goods such as stoves, refrigerators and appliances. White goods will be sold to local scrap dealers for recycling. - Wood Wood will be recovered in two places. Large pieces of wood will be removed by a small skid loader at the tipping floor. Smaller items of wood will be manually sorted at the primary sorting station. The recovered wood will be ground into nominal 1" x V chips. These chips will be used as a bulking agent in our mixed organic compost operation. Ferrous and Non -Ferrous Cans . , Our large electro magnet will recover a major portion of ferrous cans found in the waste stream. The plant will also be equipped with an Eddy Current Separator. The Eddy Current will automatically remove non-ferrous cans from the waste stream. Both ferrous and non-ferrous cans can be sold to local scrap producers. Plastics Light plastic commodities that are not sold to PCA may be used as fuel in our RDF. The system we are proposing has the ability to extract light plastics typically non-recoverable and recycle them for beneficial reuse as RDF fuel. Heavier plastic containing PVC will be removed through our air separation system. The light plastics such as polypropylene and polystyrene will be mixed with residual paper to produce an engineered fuel. It can be burned like coal to produce energy 14 JUNE 139 1996 a00K.344