Sparta and Alchemy are proud to announce the award to upgrade/automate the curbside recycling system of the highly progressive PA-based Centre County Recycling and Refuse
Authority (CCRRA).
Passionately committed to sustainability and environmental stewardship, with its vision
statement to be the leader in achieving zero waste, CCRRA runs a model curbside collection
program.
They last year processed over 12,000 tons of recyclables, producing over 11,450 om 2024 high quality bales of plastics, metals, cardboard, and mixed paper, effectively serving over 28,000 curbside customers and over 800 commercial customers.
CCRRA’s source-separated collection programs provide for a high quality/low contamination flow of materials into their facility.
‘You right away notice something special about the CCRRA recycling facility, team, and approach when you walk in,’ notes Howard Fiedler, VP of Sales for Sparta, who has seen hundreds of recycling operations in his 30 years of experience in the recycling industry. ‘Their material streams are
highly organized, signs of innovation are everywhere (from custom-fabricated rollables cages to invitingly designed source-separated collection containers and more), and the CCRRA management and operations teams are passionate about their quest to optimize their recycling efficiency and recovery program.’
CCRRA’s current recycling processing system (seen in the photos below) is effective, but involves the labor-intensive process of manually sorting a continuous stream of PET (water and soda) bottles, HDPE (laundry detergent bottles, milk jugs etc.), Polypropylene (PP – food packaging containers), aluminum cans, and more.
