Worldwide, 15,906 operational desalination plants turn fresh or brackish water into around 95 million cubic meters of desalinated water for human use and 142 million of brine daily. Although 177 nations feature such plants, only four nations – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar – produce 55 percent of global desalination waste. Desalination plants […]
Scotland has set ambitious targets. “Biodegradable municipal waste will be banned from landfill from 2021, and we have a target to send no more than five percent of all waste to landfill by 2025,” the Scottish Government proclaimed in February 2016. Therefore, the Government published a “strategy plan” for a circular economy named “Making Things […]
Total global waste is expected to double from nearly two billion tons in 2016 to an estimated four billion tons by 2050 as consumer-oriented urban populations grow. As population growth increases consumption and waste, managing this waste is becoming an ever-greater challenge. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to develop smarter and more […]
Australia is planning to implement a circular economy – with all the advantages that this brings. The country’s National Waste Policy, published in 2018, provides a framework for collective national action on waste management, recycling and resource recovery until 2030. Up to now, the country has landfilled a large part of its waste or taken […]
Multinational paints and coatings company AkzoNobel and Alucha, a firm that develops recycling solutions, are collaborating on a technology that turns paper sludge into resources for making paint. Alucha, which won the partnership in the 2019 Paint the Future global startup challenge, has developed a technology that recovers calcium carbonate – a mineral that goes […]
With its new automated bunker management for waste sorting facilities, German Sutco RecyclingTechnik GmbH is taking a further step towards reducing the burden on sorting and processing plant operators. In a research and design project supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the plant construction firm laid the foundations and gathered […]
End of July, the ground-breaking for a new waste processing facility took place. It is a partnership between Project STOP, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and the Jembrana Regency in Northwest Bali. According to the information, the facility is the regency’s first-ever solid waste management service that would benefit as many as 150,000 residents, […]
SCS Global Services, a leader in third-party environmental and sustainability certification, auditing, testing and standards development, has awarded dual certifications to MKS DevO Chemicals, based in Turkey. The company, a leading organic chemicals producer in Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMENA), has achieved, after undergoing an assessment, Recycled Content Certification for its patented product […]
Germany-based Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in weeeSwiss Technology AG, which specializes in the design, construction and operation of turn-key waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling plants. The two companies intend to harness their combined know-how in the joint development of new solutions, processes and technologies for WEEE […]
USA-based Taylor Machine Works, Inc. has introduced the T-1025, RECYCLER Wheel Loader. By the company’s own account, for more than 90 years, the Taylor name has become synonymous with purpose-built machines specifically designed to meet the requirements of its customers. “We listened to the needs of those working in the recycling industry and made the […]