Operadora de Ferrocarril y Manejo de Rellenos (OFMRS) has joined forces with German manufacturer Stadler Anlagenbau to develop a plant in the city of Cuautla (Morelos, Mexico) capable of managing comprehensive waste treatment for 16 municipalities in Morelos and a small part of Mexico City. Mexico is one of the world’s ten largest producers of […]
Forrec produces single machines and complete plants for the treatment of any type of municipal and industrial solid waste, and for almost 15 years has been present on the market with reliable and effective solutions. Forrec‘s complete system allows obtaining a rubber granule with a size between 0.8 and 4 mm. With this recycled rubber […]
Orwak, a Swedish provider of solutions for sorting and recycling waste materials, suggests that balers should be able to communicate. That would simplify the collection of bales at customer sites in the recycling business. According to the company, which belongs to the Sulo group since January 2020, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is part of everyday life. […]
Children love them, mostly the boys from the age of around two: What is meant are toy cars, called Bobby Cars. With UNTHA shredding technology, Metran gets the best out of rigid plastics compounds. The good news: Just because a Bobby Car is broken does not mean that it has reached the end of its […]
Meldgaard Recycling has sent a mobile plant to Portugal to process 30,000 tons of incinerator bottom ash (IBA). The processed material is then used in the Portuguese building industry. In December and January, the mobile plant was separating ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the bottom ash received from Waste-to-Energy plants. The produced ash aggregate is […]
Panizzolo Recycling Systems integrates the internal development of a software system for the control and management of its recycling solutions. What were the reasons to add a software system to the company’s portfolio? On the occasion of the recent launch of the Compact Refining Plant, Panizzolo Recycling Systems discusses this question, among others, with Andrea […]
The Ukrainian European Business Association (EBA) announced the launch of a project on the recycling of used packaging. In Ukraine, the packaging waste of plant protection products is mostly discarded or reused for counterfeiting, the association described the current situation. “These factors significantly increase the risk of environmental pollution and adversely affect human health. In […]
The BB Engineering VacuFil process enables the re-utilization of PET – or polyester*) – waste into high-end textile filament and fiber products in defined qualities. Sustainable handling of natural resources is a global task, the Germany-based company BB Engineering (BBE) underlines. This would relate in particular to the further development of the circular economy for […]
Austria-based ALPLA Group, is offering “the world’s first carbon-neutral recycled PET”. The firm switched its PET Recycling Team plants in Wöllersdorf (Austria) and Radomsko (Poland) to a mix of electricity from renewable sources to produce climate-friendly rPET (= recycled polyethylene terephthalate). “This step has already had a big impact on the carbon footprint of our […]
At a campaign rally in late February 2020 in Colorado Springs, former President Donald Trump declared that “after a period of time, wind turbines get tired, they get old, they get rusty, and a lot of guys say hey, their useful life is gone, let‘s get the hell out of here”. However, the reality is […]