Tidewater honored by VRA. (Municipal Recycling).Tidewater Fibre Corp., Chesapeake, Va., has been selected as the top Large Recycling Business by the Virginia Recycling Association (VRA VRA Visual Resources Association VRA Voting Rights Act of 1965 VRA Volta River Authority VRA Veterans Recruitment Appointment VRA Virginia Recycling Association VRA Volunteer Rescue Association ( Australia) VRA Voice Risk Analysis ). The company collects and processes curbside recyclables from some of Virginia's largest cities and surrounding communities. Tidewater operates the first large single-stream materials recovery facility A materials recovery facility or materials reclamation facility (MRF -- pronounced "murf") is a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-user manufacturers. (MRF MRF Markov Random Field MRF Material Recovery Facility MRF Materials Recycling Facility MRF Motorcycle Riders Foundation MRF Medium Range Forecast (weather forecasting model) MRF Movement for Rights and Freedoms ) on the East Coast, in Chesapeake, and has just completed equipment installation work at its second single stream MRF, near Richmond. Both MRFs use screening technology to achieve high recovery rates from single-stream compacted materials collected at curbside. "Just as the trend in trash collection has changed over the years to automation, so will recycling collection services," says Michael Benedetto Michael Benedetto is a Member of the New York State Assembly representing the 82nd Assembly District, which is located in the Northeast Bronx. After a 35-year teaching career at the elementary and secondary school level, he was first elected to the State Assembly in 2004. , executive vice president with Tidewater Fibre Corp. "We're proud to be recognized as a leader of single-stream collection and processing services." Tidewater Fibre Corp. was founded in 1973 by the Benedetto family. The company recycles about one million pounds of paper and other recyclables each day. In mid-October, the company held an open house at its new MRF in Chester, which features a Lubo and Bollegraaf sorting system installed by Van Dyk Baler Corp., Stamford, Conn., and a high-volume baler made by IPS (1) (Inches Per Second) The measurement of the speed of tape passing by a read/write head or paper passing through a pen plotter. (2) (IPS) (Intrusion Prevention S Baler Inc., Baxley, Ga. |
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