Material Recycling Facilities: A building to save landfills

In The News - By Ted Brennan, T. M. Brennan Contractors, Inc.

Proper disposal of construction materials is a critical part of all projects; 70% is a typical target. Where does all that material go? Well, increasingly it goes to large Material Recycling Facilities (MRF) to reclaim the recyclables and save landfills. What kind of building is a MRF? We recently built a 26,000 s/f, 47-foot high facility in Sparta, NJ, designed to handle 400 tons of construction waste daily. While the design was deceptively simple, this is a heavy duty building designed and built to take a beating from 36-ton trucks—as many as 15 at a time. Waste can also arrive or leave by rail.

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Posted by Ralph DeFazio, Sales Manager on 07/01 at 11:48 PM

Sparta planning board digs into quarry question

In The News - The New Jersey Herald

SPARTA—An application for Grinnell Enterprises to mine roughly 100 acres of soil near Lake Grinnell made a return to the township planning board Wednesday night.

Members of the group Concerned Citizens Against the Quarry, wearing shocking orange shirts, filled the room to capacity, and town officials even broadcast the proceedings out on television screens in the hallways.

But they were not heard Wednesday night, and this is just the beginning of the controversy again.

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Posted by Ralph DeFazio, Sales Manager on 07/01 at 11:42 PM

Sparta quarry controversy reborn

In The News - The New Jersey Herald

SPARTA—It’s spring again, and everything’s in bloom—including the red-and-white “no quarry” and “fight the quarry” signs that have sprung up around the northern corner of Sparta in the area surrounding Lake Grinnell.

The controversy about an application to mine the soil of 150 acres of field and forest will be unearthed again May 20, after a nearly two-year hiatus.

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Posted by Ralph DeFazio, Sales Manager on 07/01 at 10:52 PM

Transfer station work is progressing

In The News - The Sparta Independent

Sparta - Jason Cofrancesco, president of Grinnell Recycling, says he is delighted that work has now begun on the new 25,000-square-foot transfer station where the company will sort and sell a wide range of construction debris from demolished buildings. The new facility will be the county’s first solid waste transfer station/material recovery facility (MRF).

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Posted by Ralph DeFazio, Sales Manager on 07/01 at 10:33 PM

New Jersey C&D Company Receives Approval to Build C&D Plant

In The News - Construction & Demolition Recycling Magazine

Grinnell Recycling & Container Service, headquartered in Sparta, N.J., recently received approval to build and operate a Materials Recycling Facility at its existing Class B recycling facility. The approval means the company will be allowed to handle a wide range of commingled recyclables generated at construction and demolition sites.

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Posted by Ralph DeFazio, Sales Manager on 07/01 at 10:25 PM