Mid-Valley Garbage & Recycling Association
3680 Brooklake Rd NE, Salem, Oregon, United States

Mid-Valley Garbage & Recycling Association is both locally-owned & locally-operated garbage/recycle haulers serving residents and businesses in Marion County, Oregon for more than 50 Years! Find out which garbage and recycling hauler services your area. Recycling is one of the best ways to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. It is important to both the natural environment and you. Below you will find information on the local recycling depots.Local Garbage/Recycle Haulers Keeping Cities & Marion County Clean & Green for more than 50-Years! Residential / Commercial / Industrial Recycling & Waste Removal. In-Home Removal of Junk from Attics / Basements / Garages / Yards. Call the experts today!Mid-Valley Garbage & Recycling Association is both locally-owned & locally-operated garbage/recycle haulers serving residents and businesses in Marion County, Oregon for more than 50 Years!

Organic Recycling

When we say organics recycling, we are referring to all activities that collect, process, and use organic waste derived materials. Many organic materials are collected from urban environments and transported to processing sites. In rural areas, opportunity to process on-site is building momentum. It is easily said that organics recycling can be a resource or economic development strategy as well as a waste management mechanism.
Most people are familiar with back yard compost or worm bin and yard debris collection. Materials that can potentially be collected in the urban environment also include storm debris, food waste, biosolids, and residues from food or other manufacturing processes, just to name a few. In rural areas organics materials can be manure, field crop residues, and wood waste from logging and land clearing. A great deal of focus and attention has recently been directed at both on-farm composting (especially from a water quality perspective) and wood waste processing (from an air quality perspective).
These are just a few of the elements in organic waste recycling but opportunities to recover more resources grow each day. The variety of materials and processes that can be processed into value added resources are limited only by technology, innovation, and creativity. New methods and techniques appear in the industry on a regular basis.

Marion Resource Recovery Facility

Folks traveling through Brooks may notice a different look at 3680 Brooklake Road in Marion County. Known as Marion Recycling Center, Inc., for the mrrf4past twelve years, the 5.5-acre recycling center has taken on a big new look. In response to a need to handle excess waste materials beyond the incineration capacity of the Waste-To-Energy-Facility and to address total removal of commercial sheet rock prior to incineration. Marion Resource Recovery Facility (MRRF) was constructed and began operations on April 10, 2000. The fully enclosed 36,000 square foot automated facility is designed to easily sort recyclable materials from the dry waste stream of commercial loads collected by local Garbage/Recycle haulers. Company owners have over fifty years of experience in the solid waste, recycling and waste recovery industry and known nationally for their innovation, expertise and community service.
The first loads sorted at the new facility came from the new building construction itself. More than 62,000 pounds of mrrf6wood, cardboard, metal and sheet rock were pulled generating over 180 yards of materials sorted out of the waste stream and not incinerated.

Materials are loaded onto the automated sort-line with an excavator, sporting a modified grapple otherwise known as a Takeuchi (pronounce tack-e-ooch-ee).
Materials travel up a conveyor onto a shaker-screen. The screen shakes-rattles-and-rolls the materials to remove tiny particles known in the industry as fines.
Materials then drop from the shaker-screen onto an automated sorting conveyor,
traveling slowly past five employees known as sorters. The sorters remove recyclable commodities into numerous containers in preparation for ultimate shipment to Northwest markets. All materials not selected for recycling are loaded directly into a 48-foot walking trailer for disposal.
mrrf1The new MRRF also has a redesigned public recycling depot for the local residents. Items accepted are: Newspaper, Corrugated Cardboard, Mixed Scrap Paper & Grayboard, Tin/Aluminum Cans, Plastic Bottles/Tubs/Trays #1-7, Magazines, Catalogs and Glass Bottles/Jars. Depot hours are 7:00am -3:30pm Monday – Friday, and closed weekends/holidays.