The WEEE Forum has today published a paper outlining the issues associated with the treatment of WEEE as metal scrap and has called on the competent authorities to take appropriate action. The paper discusses how treating WEEE as metal scrap is problematic and encourages those responsible to penalize facilities that do so. The practice of […]
Swedish researchers have found out that a new method for recycling old batteries can provide better performing and cheaper rechargeable hydride batteries (NiMH). “The new method allows the upcycled material to be used directly in new battery production,” Dag Noréus is quoted. The professor at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University, […]
End of June this year, Proteco – a division of Singapore based company Yes Full Circle (YFC) – has launched a pilot facility that provides integrated brand protection, secure destruction and closed-loop/zero-landfill recycling solutions. According to the company, the facility uses proprietary technology to provide full traceability to confirm and validate the destruction and recycling […]
The uncertainty caused by the Corona-Virus or Covid-19 respectively is based on nescience about the number of people infected. Wastewater based epidemiology delivers a relatively new method to gain insights into the dissemination of the pathogen. Which possibilities this procedural method offers and which difficulties might occur are issues researchers all over the world try […]
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 […]