Greenstar New Recycling Facility in Akron

Machinex and Greenstar Recycling teamed up

Greenstar Recycling, a leading recycler in North America, Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic, and Summit County Executive Russ Pry announced today, June 6, 2012, the opening of Greenstar’s newest single stream recycling facility in Akron that will serve customers in central and northeast Ohio.

Greenstar has invested $7 million in the Exeter Road recycling facility, which includes improvements to an existing 196,000 square foot facility and new technology upgrades from Machinex to help automate the sorting of materials. The facility will process 7,000 tons of recyclables per month, but can expand that capacity to 15,000 tons as the need arises. Greenstar has created 43 new local green jobs in order to run the facility and jobs could potentially increase to 75 as recycling volume increases.

The system

1 Back Scraping Drum

1 OCC Screen

1 Scalping Screen

1 Glass Breaker Screen

1 Glass Clean up System

1 Mach One News Screen

1 Mach One Finishing Screen 2D

2 Optical Sorters

1 Machinex Baler