2024 Marks Strong Year for Van Dyk

New installations, deals and partnerships mark strong year for Van Dyk Recycling Solutions

NOVA Circular Solutions to Open Film Recycling Plant

NOVA Circular Solutions to open film recycling plant
Van Dyk’s front-end processing system for NOVA Circular Solutions’ first mechanical recycling facility will be starting up in January 2025. The site will convert post-consumer plastic films into recycled polyethylene with a capacity of over 100 million pounds per year.

Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC Begins Chemical Recycling of Plastics

Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC begins chemical recycling of plastics
Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC is opening its first plastic recycling facility in Hebron, OH with equipment from Van Dyk to sort and purify a variety of polyolefins, otherwise destined for the landfill, which will be further converted into oil.

Waste Connections Opens Facility with Advanced Fire Prevention

Waste Connections opens facility with advanced fire prevention
Waste Connections opened their latest single stream facility in Plainfield, IL in the spring of 2024. The plant is equipped with 5 levels of fire safety and prevention to combat one of the most pervasive issues in MRFs today. The highly automated system processes 37 tph, with only 4 manual sorters, while maintaining Waste Connections’ #1 value- employee safety.

Atlantic Coast Recycling Opens Redeveloped MRF

Atlantic Coast Recycling opens redeveloped MRF
Atlantic Coast Recycling of Passaic, NJ opened a combined single stream and dual stream system in the spring of 2024, after a year-long redevelopment project. The system features eight TOMRA autosort equipped with artificial intelligence to recover paper and plastics from residential and commercial material, and processes over 16,000 tons monthly. The system’s advancements have allowed the MRF to substantially reduce sorting labor costs.

FCC Environmental Services Opens C&D System

FCC Environmental Services opens C&D system
FCC Environmental Services has finished and commissioned its 60 tph C&D system in Roseville, CA to process construction and demolition waste. The next phase of FCC’s deal with the Western Placer Waste Management Authority is completion of a 110 tph MSW line to process the county’s solid waste, which is underway and expected to be operational in late 2025.

Mazza Recycling Services to Build New C&D Facility

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Mazza Recycling Services has selected Van Dyk to build their newest C&D plant in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. The system will feature shredders, magnets, Lubo screens and optical sorters to recover wood from mixed construction and demolition waste. The TOMRA optical sorters will be equipped with GAINnext artificial intelligence and Deep Laiser recognition for optimal sortation of wood.

Ontario Selects Processors for EPR Rollout

Ontario selects processors for EPR rollout - van dyk recycling solutions
Circular Materials is the not-for-profit producer responsibility organization that is helping producers meet their commitments under the new EPR policy for packaging and paper products in Ontario. To support this initiative, Circular Materials has awarded WM the contract to construct two state-of-the-art recycling facilities strategically located in the Region of Waterloo and Greater Napanee. Scheduled for completion in 2026, these highly automated facilities will support the efficient and effective recycling of material in the province.

Ontario Selects Processors for EPR Rollout

Ontario selects processors for EPR rollout
Circular Materials has also awarded a contract to GFL to build and operate a plant in Toronto, which will recover a wide range of packaging. Van Dyk Recycling Solutions will design and build a brand-new front-end processing system with a building extension to house the new equipment. Startup is expected in 2026.

GFL to Open Edmonton Single Stream MRF

GFL to open Edmonton single stream MRF
GFL is rebuilding its Edmonton, Alberta site with a 20tph single stream system to handle tons from the metro area, filling a void in the region. Van Dyk is currently installing this system, which is slated for startup in Q1 2025.

Greyparrot Analyzer – Try Before You Buy!

Greyparrot Analyzer try before you buy
Van Dyk will install analyzer units from new partner Greyparrot in its Norwalk, CT material test center in spring of 2025. Customers can demo the AI monitoring software and see how its dashboard works to present actionable data to improve MRF operations.

Murphy Road Recycling LLC Invests in AI Software

Murphy Road Recycling, LLC invests in AI software
Murphy Road Recycling becomes one of the first MRF operators to invest in Greyparrot analyzer technology, installing 15 units on all final commodity lines and infeed lines. The company says the data provided by the analyzers provides faster insight on their plant performance than traditional monitoring methods, making them more proactive in their plant management.

Murphy Road Recycling LLC Upgrades Fiber Line

Murphy Road Recycling, LLC upgrades fiber line
Murphy Road Recycling has also retrofitted their system with three new optical sorters to further enhance the capture and purity rates of fiber.

Balcones Sees Measurable Improvement with Optical Upgrade

Balcones sees measurable improvement with optical upgrade
A three-day installation took Balcones’ Austin, TX plant to new heights by replacing two underperforming optical sorters with two Pellenc ST Mistral+. The operation saw an immediate 12-15% recovery and purity improvement with almost no downtime.

USA Pellenc ST sells 300th Machine in USA

Pellenc ST sells 300th machine in USA
Pellenc ST celebrated their 300th machine sold in the USA during the installation of the Waste Connections system in Plainfield, IL. Waste Connections chose Pellenc optical sorters for their reliable sorting performance and their thoughtful design for maintenance access that makes cleaning safe and easy.

Sunnyvale, CA Improves Organics System with Smicon Equipment

Sunnyvale, CA improves organics system with Smicon equipment
The city of Sunnyvale, CA revamped their organics recovery operations by installing a SMIMO120 food depackager and a SMIMO15 grinder from manufacturer Smicon. The depackager liberates and recovers food waste from its packaging, and the grinder prepares the organics for co-digestion at the wastewater treatment plants. Sunnyvale has experienced a 60% increase in storage capacity thanks to the new system and is achieving close to 90% organic recovery.

Bollegraaf – Built to Last

Bollegraaf built to last - from van dyk recycling solutions
Two recycling operators have honorably retired and replaced their Bollegraaf balers after decades in operation. Commissioned in 2005, Gordon Recycling’s baler provided nearly twenty years of reliable performance, producing close to 1M bales. When it finally came time for a replacement, the decision was easy – they bought a brand new Bollegraaf.

Bollegraaf – Built to Last

Bollegraaf built to last
Operating since the mid-nineties, UPak’s baler ran strong for almost 30 years. Their recent upgrade to a new Bollegraaf baler continues Bollegraaf’s legacy of being the cornerstone of many recycling operations.

Republic Services Upgrades Las Vegas Site Baler

Republic Services upgrades Las Vegas site baler
Republic Services has upgraded their Las Vegas facility with a new Bollegraaf baler for high-volume baling of fiber. They chose this after operating a Bollegraaf baler at a nearby site and seeing it excel under high-throughput conditions. The plant has also added a glass cleanup system from Van Dyk to recover recyclable glass heavies.

Van Dyk Hires Plastics Expert to Expand Offerings

Van Dyk hires plastics expert to expand offerings
Van Dyk welcomes Enrico Siewert in the role of Head of Business Development – Plastics. With 20 years’ experience in the plastics industry, Siewert is uniquely positioned to help develop domestic, vertically integrated processing solutions for plastics and expand Van Dyk’s offerings of cutting-edge PRFs (Plastic Recycling Facilities).

Van Dyk Partners with Battery Recycler

Van Dyk partners with battery recycler
Van Dyk partners with Reckelberg Environmental Technologies (RET) to recycle lithium-ion batteries. RET has a unique sorting process for recovering the valuable black mass present in these batteries.