Southland Recycling Building New Plant

[thelakelander]

I wonder if this means they will be closing their Springfield Warehouse District plant?

Southland Recycling is building a facility to handle all the residential recyclable materials coming from every home in Jacksonville.

It's expecting about 30,000 tons a year of glass, plastic and cardboard to come through it.

In exchange, the company will pay the city $41 a ton, or about $1.25 million a year.

To handle all that, the company is building a $16 million facility in the Westside Industrial Park on Imeson Road, out west of Interstate 295.

They broke ground on the 70,000-square-foot building in July, are pouring the concrete this week and hope to be open by April.

But under a city contract that went into effect last October, Southland receives all the recycling materials from the other haulers.

Some of it goes through its own plant on Market Street. But that is at full capacity, so the rest is subcontracted out.

The new facility will be able to take it all, and in one stream where it will be sorted, most of it automatically, some of it by hand.

full article: http://jacksonville.com/business/2011-09-21/story/southland-building-16-million-plant-handle-all-jacksonvilles-recycling


Southland's Springfield plant is #5 on this aerial.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2008-jul-then-and-now-the-springfield-warehouse-district