1. Understanding
C&D Processing

2.  C&D Processors are regulated solid waste handling
facilities
 There are 16 permitted facilities in Massachusetts
 Each processor is required to operate their facilities
according to a documented and recorded waste ban
plan
 These plans describe in detail the staffing levels,
sorting/recycling equipment and floor plan layout
necessary to operate the facility
 Each processors is required to submit accurate records
on all incoming and outgoing material

3.  Incoming debris is weighed at the scale house
 Loads are then inspected for hazardous material
(suspected asbestos containing material) and waste ban
items
 Approved loads are then unloaded on the plant’s tipping
floor
 Large easily identifiable materials are separated on the
tipping floor and stored in designated areas
 The remaining material is pushed up to a feeder pile
 An excavator with a grapple sits on top of the pile and
feeds the recycling equipment line

4.  The recycling line separates the material by size
 6”- material is conveyed over a magnet to remove
ferrous material and then sent up a conveyor belt and
fed into a destoner which uses forced air to remove the
heavy material (ABC) while the lighter material is blown
out the back of the conveyor belt
 The 6”+ material is run over a star screen to remove
fines/dirt and then conveyed up a manual sorting line
where laborers segregate the material by type
 The material is dropped below to storage bunkers

5. Arriving material gets weighed on the
incoming scale

6. The load is inspected and tipped on the floor

7. The the material is pushed up to a feeder pile and an excavator
trickles the material onto the recycling line

8. Material is hand sorted and dropped to storage bunkers
below

9. Aggregate Aluminum Cardboard Plastics
Light Iron Asphalt Shingles Gypsum Wood Chips

10. Sorted products are shipped to end markets by 100 yard trailers or railcars