VDRS to equip FCC’s Houston MRF

FCC Environmental Services recently received the contract from the city of Houston to design, finance, build and operate a material recovery facility (MRF) that will sort and market the city’s recyclables for 15 years, extendable up to 20 years. The company is The Woodlands, Texas-based American environmental services subsidiary of the Spanish company FCC Group.

FCC partnered with supplier Van Dyk Recycling Solutions (VDRS), Stamford, Connecticut, to deliver a high-capacity system with the most advanced technology on the market. The previous collaboration between the two parties (the Dallas MRF) won the National Waste and Recycling Association’s Recycling Facility of the Year Award in 2017.

Because the city of Houston is allowing glass and film to be added back into its recycling program, the new MRF will feature a glass cleanup system as well as a 13.5-foot-wide elliptical separator to screen out film plastics. VDRS says the system is similar to FCC’s Dallas plant (which screens out film plastics at twice the national average) but will contain additional optical sorters to maximize fiber quality and to automatically recover plastic film.

“Van Dyk is excited to partner again with FCC for this new project and continue the tradition of designing high-capacity plants that meet and exceed goals and expectations,” the supplier says in the news release announcing the installation.

FCC’s Houston MRF is slated to be completed spring of 2019.