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Waste Management builds trash-sorting MRF near Oakland

Published: April 18, 2017
Updated: April 19, 2017
by Colin Staub

Construction progress on Waste Management’s Alameda County facility as of February 2017. Photo credit: CalRecycle

An operation in California estimated to cost more than $120 million will extract plastics and other recoverable material from municipal solid waste. But it’s not aimed at replacing curbside recycling collection.

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