Dive summary:

• Tulsa Recycle and Transfer finished a $10 million upgrade at its three-acre facility to replace an entirely manual process with one that uses dozens of automatic sorting points.
• Magnets, scanners and air classifiers along rows of conveyer belts increase the amount of recycled materials the facility is able to process and the speed of the sorting.
• The recycling program, which launched on Oct. 1, has already set up recycling carts for 110,000 out of the 116,500 households in the city.

From the article:

As the mayor proclaimed Thursday as the first Tulsa Recycles Day, the new, high-tech material recovery facility processing all of the city's household recyclables was unveiled.

Tulsa Recycle and Transfer, the contractor, recently went through a $10 million upgrade at its 1150 N. Peoria Ave., three-acre facility to replace an entirely manual process with one that uses dozens of automatic sorting points.

Magnets, optical scanners and air classifiers along the conveyer belts increase the amount of recycled materials and productivity. ...