Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs)

  • Design and Procurement
  • Contract Negotiations
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Process Expansion Improvement
  • Enhance Worker Safety and Ergonomic Design

Dvirka and Bartilucci Consulting Engineers (D&B) established its place as a leader in the area of Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) in 1983, when D&B originated the concept of integrated solid waste management, and demonstrated the importance of MRFs to the success of integrated solid waste management systems. Since that time, D&B has remained in the forefront of MRF development and improvements through its client services in the areas of design, competitive procurement, performance evaluations, process redesign and expansions, and cost-effectiveness programs.

D&B has introduced several important innovations which have benefited its clients, which are as follows:

  • The introduction of key design and performance features, such as efficient materials handling, physical separation of tipping and processing areas, durable process systems, adequate space for tipping and product storage, sorting enclosures for workers, and storage cages for sorted materials with automatic discharge to the baler feed conveyor.
  • An efficient and compact design for mechanized light/heavy materials sorting.

  • The use of competitive privatization to provide benefits to public sector MRF owners from MRF operations contractors:
    • Protection from all negative market pricing risks
    • Guaranteed marketing of recovered materials
    • Long-term marketing agreements with floor prices
    • Merchant recyclables delivery and revenue sharing guarantees
    • Increasing the number of individual recyclable materials recovered at no additional cost


D&B’s continuous involvement in MRF developments, expansions and procurements of operations contractor procurements from 1983 to the present, has allowed its clients to benefit immediately from advances in the industry. This has led D&B’s clients to lower the fees which they pay to operations contractors by nearly fifty percent (50%) during the 1988 to 1996 period, while gaining improved contractual performance as described above. It also gives D&B’s clients access to the latest information on equipment performance and process systems design.

For more information on D&B’s Solid Waste Management services, please contact Vice President, Theodore S. Pytlar, Jr., at (908) 668-4747.