McKinney Recycling Center Opens in Texas
6 Oct
A brand new recycling center has just opened in McKinney, Texas and it promises to revolutionize recycling in the local area. The IESI McKinney recycling facility is called a Material Recovery Facility and is situated in McKinney near the Collin Airport. The Mckinney recycling facility will be the first privately funded single-stream LEED certified Material Recycling Facility in North America.
New IESI MRF Recycling Center in McKinney
The McKinney recycling center building is fully LEED certified which means the building itself was built to the strictest eco friendly standards;
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of green commercial structures.
The new recycling center also houses a second-floor community room and observation deck overlooking the recycling operations area.
The New IESI MRF Recycling Center, McKinney TX
They will be recycling;
- Glass
- Plastic
- Paper
- Aluminum
- Tin
- Cardboard
The facility incorporates sustainable features such as certified wood, building materials containing recycled content, low-emitting materials, water-conserving fixtures and features to reduce the heat-island effect.
Inside the New Recycling Center, McKinney
The 28,000 square foot facility will annually process more than 144 million pounds of recyclable materials!
The Recyclables Being Sorted Inside the MRF Building
Contact Details:
IESI McKinney MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) Texas
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Please update or correct the article to identify the new facility owner and operator as IESI, not Waste Watchers.
The photo shown is not the new building.
Hi Terri,
Thanks for your comments, I have corrected the article and will email you to try and get some more up to date photos of the building.
We’re glad you found us and are excited to spread the news of this new recycling center that all Texans can be proud of.
Martin,
Waste Watchers has no affiliation with this project. I’m not sure I even know who Watchers is. IESI has developed this project as part of our partnership with the City of McKinney, Texas. This project was paid for 100% by IESI and is the first of its kind in North America. We appreciate your coverage of this very exciting grand opening but want to make sure that the public receives an accurate reporting of the ownership status of this one of a kind recycling facility.
I look forward to a clarification of your reporting,
John Gustafson
Region Vice President
IESI Corporation
469-452-8000
Hi John, thanks for the feedback, I will edit the post right away… Glad you found us, hope you like the site?