Mayor Sylvester Turner, City officials and representatives from Spanish company FCC broke ground Tuesday for Houston's new recycling facility in the northeast part of town.
The size of the new facility will be over 100,000 square feet.
Turner said it will handle the processing and sorting of all the single stream recycling collected by the City, which amounts to 65,000 tons per year.
Today, we broke ground with FCC Environmental Services @DavisDistrictB @HoustonTrash
on a new recycling facility. Opening March ‘19, it'll handle glass, aluminum, plastics & metals. Houston's recycling program will be more robust with the best facility in the country. #HouNews pic.twitter.com/FacIzXL3qN— Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) July 10, 2018
The facility will recycle glass, paper, plastic, metals and aluminum, and the Mayor noted it will generate up to 100 jobs.
FCC won the City's recycling contract and it will invest $23 million in the new facility, which is scheduled to start operating in March 2019, according to the Solid Waste Management Department.
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