"materials recovery facility" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: materials recovery facilities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} materials recovery facility (plural materials recovery facilities)
  1. A waste recycling plant. Often shortened to MRF Translations (waste recycling plant): 材料回收設備 (Chinese Mandarin), 材料回收设备 (cáiliào huíshōu shèbèi) (Chinese Mandarin), kierrätyslaitos (Finnish), kierrätyskeskus (Finnish), planta de recuperación de residuos [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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