In
1988, Flood Brothers founded a new company called C & S Recycling,
in response to changing environmental regulations, recycling laws,
and local ordinances governing the disposal of solid waste.
Sitting on two acres of land in what was formerly home to a Chicago beer distributor, C&S collects and processes hundreds of tons of non-hazardous recyclables daily. In addition to its collection services, which include a fleet of packers, end loaders, and roll-off boxes, C&S includes the following operations:
The 30,000 square-foot Recycling Center is the hub of Flood Brothers' operations. The MRF (Material Recovery Facility) receives, sorts, and processes recyclable materials, cardboard, paper, plastics, glass, and metal delivered by its own collection services.
The MRF receives many tons of materials daily and has the capacity to process many more additional tons.
Opened in 1988, C&S' state-of-the-art recycling center is lcoated in a former beer distribution plant that sits adjacent to the railroad. A 100-foot conveyor system carries the recyclable commodity directly from the tipping area through the recycling center where 10 sorters separate the wood, steel, cardboard, glass, plastic, aluminum, paper, and tin; dropping them into chutes leading to separate bins located on the first floor below.
Once separated, the cardboard, plastics, tin, and aluminum move on to a separate conveyor system to a baler that packages the materials into bales that will be sold as raw materials for recycled products. The unbaled newspaper, glass, and steel materials are bundled and sold in bulk to dealers who, in turn, sell the materials to manufacturing companies. In all, tons of recyclables are sorted and processed each month.
Large construction debris such as cement and wood are immediately taken to concrete recyclers and the wood is taken to pallet companies where front end loaders separate the materials for processing. All wood is chipped and sold for use as landfill, roadfill, forest preserve trails, chipboard or pallets. Concrete is ultimately recycled for road-building material.
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