Dive summary:

• Rumpke Consolidated Companies Inc. has been awarded $32 million in financing by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (OAQDA) to build their new recycling facility in Cincinnati.
• The new plant will replace Rumpke’s facility that was lost to fire last April.
• The facility will process residential and commercial materials with a dual in-feed processing system, which can process 55 tons of residential material an hour and 20 tons of commercial material an hour.

From the article:

The 84,000 square-foot recycling plant will employ 110 workers and process residential and commercial materials through a dual in-feed processing system at 55 tons per hour of residential material and 20 tons per hour of commercial material. The processing and baling systems to be installed include six optical scanners for sorting fiber and containers, two eddy current separators for aluminum, an electromagnet for ferrous scrap and an extensive mixed-glass removal system. ...