- What it does
- Provides pre-processed, sorted, and physically formed secondary feedstock, spanning representative products like baled corrugated cardboard, compacted scrap metal cubes, and palletized plastic extrusions. It serves as the raw material foundation for industrial recycling, smelting, and secondary manufacturing operations.
- How it flows
- Delivered as a bulk physical good via flatbed trucks, rail cars, or shipping containers and offloaded into industrial processing yards. It is consumed directly as a raw material input by heavy machinery, such as industrial shredders, melting furnaces, and pulpers.
- Summary
- Formed waste material flows from material recovery facilities as sorted and compacted bales, cubes, or pallets, transitioning via flatbed or rail freight to industrial processing yards where it is consumed directly by shredders, furnaces, or pulpers.