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The FCC’s Material Recycling Facili- ty located in the City of Dallas, built, financed and managed by FCC Environmental Services, the U.S. subsidiary of the FCC Group, spe- cialising in environmental services, was selected by the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) as the Best Recycling Facility of the Year 2017 in North America. This award recognizes the facility that demonstrates leadership in key measurements, such as innovation, quantity of materials collected and/ or processed, types of materials re- covered, site improvements, or sus- tainability measures adopted. In November 2015, the City of Da- llas, Texas awarded the contract for the design, construction and ope- ration of a Single-Stream Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) to process the city’s recyclables. With the la- test sorting and classification tech- niques, including optical sorters, as well as gravimetric sorting machi- nes, the plant can handle more than 40 tons per hour of single-stream material. Construction of the facility started in March 2016 and was completed in December of the same year. It measures 5,400 m2 with the office building occupying a space of 840 m2 and the rkshop about 300 m2. The total area is 5.3 hectares, the equivalent of eight soccer fields. FCC also built an education cen- tre at the facility to help Dallas City Countil meet its environmental ob- jectives by training and educating children and adults in the best sus- tainability and recycling practices. Construction on the facility started in March 2016 and was completed in December of the same year. The The Dallas facility awarded the best recycling facility in the United States FCC started operations on 1 January 2017 facility began operating on January 1, 2017. In its first year of operation, the MRF will process around 80,000 tons in 2017 with a total capacity of 140,000 tons per year. This MRF is a critical piece of infras- tructure because all single stream recyclable material from the City of Dallas, and surrounding areas, will be processed here over the next fif- teen years with a possible extension for an additional 10 years. As the contract also gives the provider the exclusive rights to the material from all recyclable waste containers in the City of Dallas for its duration, its successful delivery is vital to achie- ving the city’s ambitious efforts to increase waste diversion to: 40 per- cent by 2020, 60 percent by 2030, and 80 percent (“zero waste”) by 2040. AWARDS F C C G R O U P F C C G R O U P 8