The words “Don’t trash it, repurpose it” can be read on the new Mercedes-Benz Econic waste collection vehicles in Singapore, which were ordered by the local waste management company, Sembcorp. Today, around six million people live in the booming Asian metropolis Singapore where they produce just under 5,000 tons of waste – every day. That […]
The international market research and consulting firm QY Research has lately published a report titled “Global Recycled Glass Fiber Sales Market Report 2020.” As underlined by the company, which was established in 2007 in Beijing (China), the researchers have critically examined the key growth factors and advancements associated with the global market. In 2019, the […]
Sytronix variable-speed pump drives from Rexroth meet the needs of the recycling industry. According to the worldwide active provider, the Sytronix variable-speed pump drives for recycling applications are energy-efficient and will significantly increase the energy efficiency of channel balers, scrap shears and scrap presses. Furthermore, these products represent a ready-to-install solution based on proven standard […]
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 […]