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Contact Information

Eastview Landfill

765 33rd St E.
Brandon, MB R7A 7L2

Office Phone: 204-729-2281

Email: solidwaste@brandon.ca

Material Recovery Facility (MRF)

The City of Brandon Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is located the Eastview Landfill Site at 765 33rd Street East. The facility has been in operation since 2003 and have been operated by the City of Brandon since 2014.

Over the last 5 years, there has been an average of 7,812,940 kgs (that’s over 17 million pounds!) come into this facility every year.

Did you know that the material is all sorted manually by our staff; by ensuring your cart is free of contamination you can keep our staff members safe and working efficiently.

The materials are sorted into four (4) basic categories:

  1. OCC (Old Corrugated Cardboard)
  2. Shredded Office Paper (SOP)
  3. Comingled Recyclabes (also called Single Stream)
  4. Residue – this is material that comes through that is not accepted under the program and will be taken to the waste cell.

OCC, SOP and the comingled recyclables are sorted, baled and then shipped. OCC and SOP are marketed direct from the facility while the comingled recyclables are sent to another MRF where they are further sorted into more specific commodities and then sold to processors who convert the product back to raw material.

Examples of what is made of recycled materials:

Plastic bottles and jars are shredded into flakes and are used to manufacture pullover sweatshirts, pillow stuffing, carpet backing, plastic lumber (playgrounds), ice scrapers, and more.

Food and beverage cans are melted down and reformed into more aluminum cans or other scrap metal to make new steel or metal products like rebar.

Tetra Pak containers and milk cartons are separated into different material types – paper, aluminum lining, plastic. The paper fibre is used in toilet paper, cardboard boxes and other paper products.

Boxboard, mixed waste paper, newspaper and cardboard is hydro-pulped. The contaminants such as wire, plastic, string and glue are screened out and the ink is removed. The pulp is then dried into to sheets and each type of material is separately used: mixed waste paper pulp is used to make newsprint, magazines, writing paper and books. Cardboard pulp is used to make new cardboard, paperboard, egg cartons. Newspaper pulp is used to make newsprint or used in making roof and felt paper for the construction industry. Boxboard pulp is used to make industrial paper products.