Located in Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil, the MRF was both engineered and constructed by Sutco and is thought to be one of the largest mixed municipal solid waste sorting plants in the country.
The facility is designed to process up to 52 tonnes of waste per hour.
Guilherme Cavalcanti, Sales Representative at Sutco Brasil, said: “Brusque marks a new chapter for the circular economy in Brazil.
“The facility shows what modern sorting technology can achieve: it enables higher recycling performance, improves the quality of recovered materials and puts valuable resources back into the value chain.”
Owned by Brazilian waste management company Ciclare, the site will handle approximately 225,000 tonnes of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW) annually.
It is set to recover PET, PP, PE, plastic films, ferrous and non-ferrous metals from its municipal streams, and cardboard from its bulky waste fraction.
The facility uses a sorting system featuring five near-infrared (NIR) optical sorters which are thought to have a recovery rate of up to 93% for 3D PET, PP and PE from the waste stream. This is followed by a continuous baling solution.
The project is a joint venture between Sutco Brasil and Sutco RecyclingTechnik, which is based in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.
The latter has completed over 600 reference projects worldwide, with a specialty in turnkey solutions.
A timelapse video of the Brusque construction can be seen here:
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