Expert Home Stagers in Bronx, NY

BEHIND THE SCENES AT NYC’S RECYCLING SORTING FACILITY IN BROOKLYN Every day, around a thousand tons of recycled materials are dumped into towering piles at the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility (MRF). This state-of-the-art facility on Brooklyn’s waterfront sorts and processes recycling from all five boroughs. MRF is located atop the 11-acre, 29th Street pier at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park. The building was designed by Selldorf Architects and sits atop the former site of an NYPD impoundment lot. Completed in 2014, the structure is partially made of recycled materials. The land it sits upon was filled in with glass, asphalt, and rock from the construction of the Second Avenue subway, and recycled steel and glass were used on the building and its plazas. MRF’s location on the water allows it to accept materials from trucks, rail, and barges. This helps to drastically cut down the amount of miles driven by collection trucks. Materials from Queens and the Bronx largely come by barge, while material from Brooklyn comes mostly from Department of Sanitation trucks. One barge can hold around 100 truckloads of materials. What comes into the facility is residential curbside metal, glass, carton, plastic, and paper and cardboard recyclables.