It’s where material from Flagstaff and all over the region goes to be sorted, and eventually, recycled.

But recently there’s been a trend of more non-recyclable material ending up at the MRF, and that’s causing some costly and even dangerous problems:

People are putting more and more non-recyclable material in with the recyclables causing all kinds of problems for the processing plant, especially with needles and medical waste posing a danger to sorters.