SORTED! BOGE screw compressors supply Veolia’s sorting units Veolia Environmental Services is based in Notting- hamshire in the United Kingdom, and operates a 14-million-pound materials recovery facility (MRF for short) in Mansfield. This is a state-of-the-art plant in which household waste such as plastic bottles, paper and tin cans is sorted manually and automatically and packed into bales. The custom facility, which sorts between 1,000 and 1,350 tons of material a week, requires compressed air for its sorting, this being used mainly to supply four optical sorting units. These units evaluate the quality of light reflected from the waste as it runs beneath them on a conveyer belt to recognise the size, shape and type of its constituents. Using 64 air jets the units then di

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