materials recovery facility

noun

materials recovery facility

noun
1

A waste recycling plant.

  • They pass through Walsall and on to neighbouring Aldridge where they visit a former foundry that was recently converted - "recycled", according to its owners - into the country's largest "materials recovery facility"(MRF, pronounced "merf").2009 February 26, Leo Hickman, “The truth about recycling”, in The Guardian:

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