SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): In Commerce City, Colorado, Waste Connections will construct and run a new materials recovery facility (MRF) in collaboration with AMP. Waste Connections will own and AMP will run the projected AI-powered facility. Early in 2026 is when the facility is anticipated to open.
This will be Waste Connections' first MRF in Colorado. It is anticipated that the plant will process up to 62,000 tons of single-stream recycling annually. The MRF will use cutting-edge machinery from AMP that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate the purity of materials in addition to sorting them. The technology will be able to identify issues and make real-time equipment adjustments.
Materials from all over the state, including from large communities like Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, which are located north and south of the Denver area, will be processed by the new MRF. It should be mentioned that Waste Connections currently forwards the materials gathered from these areas to MRFs that are owned by third parties.
The new MRF's inauguration is a component of Waste Connection's broader recycling initiatives, which seek to increase recycling by at least 50% when compared to the baseline year of 2018. About 2.21 million tons of materials were recycled by the company in the previous year.
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