A facility in Plainfield Township that cost $48 million to build is designed to sort recyclables with the latest technology. The Grand Central Recycling Facility at 910 W. Pennsylvania Ave has been operating since June 2025.
Since its opening, the facility has been sorting about 300 tons of recyclable materials per day. The 80,000-square-foot facility processes up to 120,000 tons of material per year, according to WM Community and Municipal Relations Manager Adrienne Fors.
The facility is part of a WM, formerly Waste Management, plan that has invested $1.4 billion in 39 new and upgraded recycling facilities across North America from 2022 to 2026, Fors said. The goal is to retain as much of the recyclable material as possible and discard unusable items, WM Supervisor Greg Macalush said.