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Leesburg staff brief commissioners on recycling markets, Waste Management sorting at Elkridge and potential local glass refinery
Summary
Town staff summarized a recent markets-and-materials meeting and showed a Waste Management video of its automated Elkridge, Md., facility; officials said market conditions for aluminum and certain plastics remain healthy and described a potential regional investment to turn glass into cement feedstock.
Town staff updated the Environmental Advisory Commission on regional recycling markets and showed a Waste Management video of the company’s Elkridge, Maryland, single‑stream sorting facility.
The presentation described the Elkridge plant as a highly automated material recovery facility that uses trommels, ballistic separators and 22 optical sorters to separate fiber, plastics, glass and aluminum. Waste Management’s explanation in the video noted each optical sorter can perform up to 1,000 picks per minute and that aluminum is recovered using an eddy current before commodities are baled and shipped to manufacturers.
The staff member who presented said they attended a Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments markets-and-materials meeting and summarized remarks from attendees, including representatives from Maryland Environmental Services,…
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