Cleanaway’s Guildford Materials Recovery Facility (Perth MRF)
Cleanaway’s Guildford Materials Recovery Facility (Perth MRF) has capacity to process up to 200,000 tonnes of recyclables per annum with the capability to recover up to 90% of reusable product and deliver up to 99.5% purity across all fibre and plastic outputs.
In November 2019, the facility suffered a catastrophic fire. It was reopened in May 2021 after significant recycling enhancements and new fire safety improvements were made.
New recycling capabilities
Our facility will improve costs and environmental outcomes for our customers by maximizing saleable resources and delivering high levels of purity commodities. New features include:
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Screening for fibre purity
Our new bounce and ballistic conveyors enhance fibre (paper) product purity while reducing the need for manual handling to remove contaminants. -
Optical sorting
The facility now has nine optical sorters that can sort plastics into five different polymers for baling. These sorters significantly improve plastic sorting and can be reprogrammed easily to target different materials if required. - Efficient baling
Additional high-production balers have been installed, with cardboard receiving its own dedicated receival bunker and baler. This can help us ensure the lowest possible costs for customers who segregate their recycling meticulously. - Recovering glass
Glass is the heaviest commingle product by weight. The new technologies installed will extract and segregate glass by two sizes and remove all excess fibre and contaminants, ready to be turned into feedstock for road base and other civil construction projects.
Improved safety measures
Our state-of-the-art facility has been designed from the ground up to comply with the National Construction Code, EPA Victoria’s Management and storage of combustible recyclable and waste materials (October 2018), and Fire and Rescue NSW’s Fire safety in waste facilities (October 2019) guidelines. This facility sets an industry benchmark for fire control and management infrastructure with features that include:
- Four concrete bunkers, each fitted with high hazard automatic sprinklers, smoke detecting systems and water monitors to minimise fire risk
- High-level fixed water cannons that can direct water to the tipping floor and bale bunkers
- Fire tanks with an effective combined capacity of 1.24 million litre water storage
- Inground storage to capture full volume of fire water tanks
- Aspirated fire smoke detection system
- Automatic inground stormwater isolation valves, which are activated on alarm from the fire monitoring panel to prevent uncontrolled discharge of fire water from site
- Electronic pollution run-off valves
- Fire hydrants and hose reels connected to pressurised system