This unique facility is different from traditional MRF's. Instead of processing only paper, cardboard, bottles and cans, the District's MRF targets materials brought in from self-haul loads and commercial wastes, construction and demolition debris, woodwaste and yardwastes. The strategy for the MRF was to recover heavy and inert components from the wastestream and to dramatically reduce the tonnage going to the landfill. The MRF's Public Education Room is a place where visitors can safely view the tipping floor, sort lines, and wood grinding operations. Four video cameras are installed in the facility to show live action on a television monitor.
Tour groups can follow an item being dumped on the tipping floor through the sorting process.