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The MRF will process around 65,000 tons in the next 12 months and has a total capacity of 145,000 tons per year. FCC officially inaugurates its recycling plant in Houston (Texas) FCC held its grand opening of the Material Recycling Facility (MRF). In attendance were the City Mayor Sylvester Turner, Vice Mayor Pro Temp Jerry Davis and three other Council members. They were wel- comed at the recycling facility by group FCC’s CEO Pablo Colio and FCC Environmental Services CEO Inigo Sanz Council members and selected officials from the City of Houston attended to the ribbon cu- tting ceremony and a tour of the re- cycling facility. FCC’s MRF, the design, financing, construction and operations are part of the contract awarded to FCC in January 2008, will process and return to the market all the City of Houston recyclable materials during for at least the next 15 years. Ac- cording to experts it is the most mo- dern and efficient recycling facility in the US. The MRF will process around 65,000 tons in the next 12 months and has a total capacity of 145,000 tons per year. Thousands of tons of glass, plastics, metals, paper, card- board, etc. will return to the market thanks to this new facility during the upcoming years. FCC also built an education centre inside of the facility with the objec- tive to assist the City of Houston to Sylvester Turner, the mayor of Houston, Jerry Davis, deputy mayor, and other municipal authorities with Pablo Colio, CEO of FCC, and Íñigo Sanz, director of the America Area, during the inauguration ceremony. C O M M U N I T I E S 46 C O M M U N I T I E S