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<br /> <br />21 <br /> <br />9 | FACILITIES <br />Facilities to be used to process / manage collected recyclable materials <br />WMRA is excited to present our new Raleigh Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to process Orange <br />County’s recy clables. Our state-of -the-art Raleigh MRF commenced operations in December, 2020 and <br />was fully operational in January, 2021. This 42,000 square foot, brand new facility leads the recycling <br />processing industry with emerging technology that focuses on efficiency. Some of the operational <br />elements of this MRF include: <br />• Two (2) non-wrappable fiber screens <br />• Optical plastics s orter <br />• Optical paper s orter <br />• Automated bunker storage system with <br />laser measurement <br />• Two (2) top -of -the -line balers, one (1) for <br />old corrugated cardboard (OCC) and one (1) for all commodities <br />• Split-wall conveyor to feed glass and residue into our WM Transfer Station glass bunker and <br />municipal solid waste (MSW ) tip floor <br />• Shared OCC and s ingle stream recyclable tip floor with technology to ensure industry-leading <br />safety and material grading <br />• Fire Rover AI-driven fire suppression system <br />• Tip floor equipped with RTZ 1080p auditing cameras that can be controlled and monitored 24/7 <br />remotely <br />• A second s cale will be installed in Q2 of 2021 to enable more efficient traffic pattern for the <br />weighing process <br />• 15 tons per hour processing of SSRY and 15 tons per hour of c ardboard processing <br />• Significant increased capacity from the Capital B oulevard MRF to support the ever-growing <br />triangle population <br />• Square f ootage: 42,000 <br />• Estimated number of employees per shift: 25 <br /> <br /> <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: B04ECF89-C776-496E-B171-26200EC380B9DocuSign Envelope ID: 74AC82FB-6B61-4F7C-BEDC-A1C3DB19140C