The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) gathered more than 100 participants, from policymakers, recyclers and NGOs in Brussels on 18 April 2023 for its first conference dedicated to tyre recycling. Many speakers called for immediate actions. Poul Steen Rasmussen, President of EuRIC Mechanical Tyre Recycling (MTR) and Group CEO of Genan, stressed in his opening […]
German-based SMS group, has been selected to provide a broad range of technology and equipment for the H2 Green Steel project in Sweden. When completed, the plant will produce steel mostly from scrap collected for recycling, using green hydrogen instead of carbon. As reported, the H2 Green Steel site will be a almost 300 hectares […]
Swedish company Scandinavian Enviro Systems reported that it has received a follow-up order for pyrolysis oil from a leading US oil company. The order concerns oil recovered from end-of-life vehicle tires – known as pyrolysis oil – at Enviro’s plant in Åsensbruk, and is of the same type as the oil that the subsidiary of […]
Developed by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in partnership with software group SAP and “battle-tested” with BCG’s clients, Circelligence is now available on SAP Store. According to BCG, Circelligence is built on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and integrates with SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA Cloud to deliver insight to customers into the circularity […]
German-based plant engineering company Zeppelin Systems welcomed the Recykl Group, an established Polish market leader in managing post-consumer waste in the form of end-of-life tires, as a partner. As reported, this partnership – which started in February – is being made in alignment with the integrated circular economy concept. According to Zeppelin Systems, the strategic […]
Santa Barbara County’s Resource Center sorts municipal solid waste (MSW) and single stream using the same circuit with the sorting technology realized in the Tomra Autosort. Santa Barbara County’s Resource Center in California may be a model of efficiency for future material recovery facilities (MRF) in North America. Conceptualized roughly 20 years ago, the mixed […]
Austria-based international technology group Andritz has received an order from Bangladeshi Lipy Paper Mills Ltd. to supply wastepaper processing systems to its mill. As reported, these are the first Andritz RCF (Recycled Fiber) lines for Bangladesh. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2023. The Austrian company will supply key equipment for two RCF […]
BVRio’s successful ‘Fishing for litter project’, run in partnership with Italian social enterprise, Ogyre, has entered into a third and expanded phase. The project, which sees fishers in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay swapping their catch of fish, for a catch of waste twice a week, has been expanded to include a third community of […]
As reported, the global deal would create a strategic partnership to support a circular and sustainable ecosystem for recycled battery materials. American company ACE Green Recycling, a global recycling technology and supply chain platform, and Swiss-based Glencore plc intend to enter “a long-term supply agreement for recycled lead as well as key battery metal-based end […]
States can expect significant increases in recycling rates for packaging (including plastic, glass, aluminum and steel) and printed paper with the adoption of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs, according to a new study from the non-governmental organization “The Recycling Partnership”. The study “Increasing Recycling Rates with EPR Policy” – published in February this year and […]