The implementation of a secondary disc screens such as the Mach One Finishing Screen has been successful in creating a cleaner container A primary sort technology chosen was one where, after the incoming stream has been cleaned up and all materials debagged, containers and fibres are moved along a separator which uses rows of "stars" that act as a screen. Fibres and bags of film pass over the top of the disc screens. The Mach I Separator, designed by Machinex, is rated to process about 20 tonnes per hour at 96 per cent efficiency for fibres and 85 per cent for containers. (For example, fibres have four per cent containers; the containers have 15 per cent fibres.) The latest Machinex Recycling Technologies separation disc screens maximize the sorting efficiency of solid, commercial and institutional waste, the company says. The design of the new disc screens increase volume throughput while decreasing manpower and also allow easy access for maintenance personnel. Disc screens have been used for construction and industrial purposes for quite some time. There are generally two different types of disc screens in the recycling industry for fibre sorting: cardboard and newsprint screens. Disk screens have also been produced for single stream recycling systems to separate the containers from the fibres. Equipment carriedd by Machinex includes conveyors, disc screens, sorting platforms, magnets, eddy current separators, as well as balers.
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