Rumpke Recycling, along with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the Jackson County Recycling District, will unveil Rumpke’s new Medora Recycling Center during a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

Rumpke officials say the new Medora Recycling Center features a 5,540 square foot concrete pad with an enclosure to protect a recycling baler and collected recycling material. Recyclables will come from residential and commercial customers in the surrounding area. The new center allows for single stream recycling, where residents mix all recyclables into a single container, and a single truck collects the items. Company officials call the center “one of most innovative single stream recycling systems in rural Indiana.”

Rumpke says that the project was partially supported by an $87,425 grant from IDEM’s Recycling Market Development Program. Rumpke funded the remaining balance of the $625,000 project.

“The Medora Recycling Center will allow Rumpke to expand its curbside and business recycling programs and improve accessibility to recycling throughout southern Indiana,” said Steve Sargent, Rumpke director of recycling. “We’ve already had hundreds of residents and businesses start recycling, and that number continues to grow. This represents an excellent public-private partnership to improve recycling.”

Rumpke says that the ribbon cutting begins at 11:30 a.m. at the facility, located at 546 South County Road 870 West. A ceremony, with speakers from Rumpke, Jackson County Recycling District and IDEM, is slated to begin at 12:15 p.m.