Waste Connections upgrades screening equipment at McKinney, Texas, MRF

Waste Connections upgrades screening equipment at McKinney, Texas, MRF
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Waste Connections, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, has installed a nonwrapping Lubo Systems 440 screen supplied by Van Dyk Recycling Solutions (VDRS), Stamford, Connecticut, at the company’s McKinney, Texas, material recovery facility (MRF). The screen is 6 feet 7 inches (2 meters) wide and replaced a traditional screen that was installed in 2008. The new screen sits on top of a 2-meter-wide commingled screen as the top deck of a double-deck setup, VDRS says.

VDRS says the nonwrapping 440 screen can be retrofit into any system.

With the previous screen, the plant had three employees dedicated to cleaning the top deck during every break and lunch. The MRF often would operate with three fewer QC sorters so those employees could take breaks. The MRF also would dedicate three employees to cleaning the screen for 1.5 hours between shifts. Waste Connections estimates that it spent a total of 2.5 hours per day cleaning this top deck. Despite this, within 30 minutes of any shift, the screen would be blocked with plastic bags. The top deck was so laborious to clean, the bottom deck often went neglected, VDRS says of the McKinney facility.

With the new 440 style screen, which VDRS installed earlier this month, the McKinney MRF now can allow all sorters to break at the same time. QC is never shorthanded by three sorters, and the cleaning time needed for the screen has been reduced to 15 minutes, which is performed by one laborer at the end of each shift.

Now, other employees at the MRF can focus on cleaning the commingled screen, which is performing better. The facility has had less fiber in the containers and fewer containers in the fiber, according to VDRS. With the screen’s addition, Waste Connection says some of the recent shifts at its McKinney MRF have been their highest production shifts ever recorded.

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Source: Recycling Today
Waste Connections upgrades screening equipment at McKinney, Texas, MRF
<![CDATA[Waste Connections, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, has installed a nonwrapping Lubo Systems 440 screen supplied by Van Dyk Recycling Solutions (VDRS), Stamford, Connecticut, at the company’s McKinney, Texas, material recovery facility (MRF). The screen is 6 feet 7 inches (2 meters) wide and replaced a traditional screen that was installed in 2008. The new screen sits on top of a 2-meter-wide commingled screen as the top deck of a double-deck setup, VDRS says. VDRS says the nonwrapping 440 screen can be retrofit into any system. With the previous screen, the plant had three employees dedicated to cleaning the top deck during every break and lunch. The MRF often would operate with three fewer QC sorters so those employees could take breaks. The MRF also would dedicate three employees to cleaning the screen for 1.5 hours between shifts. Waste Connections estimates that it spent a total of 2.5 hours per day cleaning this top deck. Despite this, within 30 minutes of any shift, the screen would be blocked with plastic bags. The top deck was so laborious to clean, the bottom deck often went neglected, VDRS says of the McKinney facility. With the new 440 style screen, which VDRS installed…