Florida-based hauler Coastal Waste & Recycling is expanding its infrastructure through a multi-facility partnership with Machinex, with four MRF upgrades either completed or underway in the Sunshine State.
Two systems came online in 2025, and two more are slated to begin operations in 2026, expanding the company’s processing capacity in the commercial, residential single-stream and construction and demolition sectors.
“We are excited to open both facilities as they are important to our long-term sustainability objectives,” said Brendon Pantano, CEO of Coastal Waste & Recycling. “Our partnership with Machinex has been important in meeting our goals.”
Coastal’s Fort Myers commercial recycling facility was commissioned in fall 2025 and is now capable of producing 20 tons per hour of high-quality OCC, mixed paper, ferrous and non-ferrous bales. The site was previously a dump-and-bale operation and has since been converted into a fully integrated single-stream processing facility.
The upgrade adds flexibility to process residential material alongside commercial loads, featuring a back scraping drum, MACH screw screen, MACH ballistic separator, MACH eddy current and II ram baler.
A 100-TPH C&D recovery system also came online in summer 2025. The installation uses a MACH trommel and MACH eddy current to recover wood, OCC, ferrous, non-ferrous, aggregate and recovered screen material, broadening Coastal’s footprint in the C&D sector.
Looking ahead, Coastal’s commercial and residential single-stream facility in Pompano Beach and a C&D system in Miami are both targeted for 2026 upgrades, extending the partnership’s reach into South Florida.
“Our goal is never to just deliver equipment — it’s to build long-term processing solutions that grow with our partners,” said Rusty Angel, senior eastern region sales manager at Machinex.
The four-facility buildout reflects what the company described as a scalable approach to processing infrastructure, designed to strengthen Coastal’s position across Florida’s evolving recycling landscape.
