Technical solutions for plastics recycling are the key to completing the circular economy. VDMA uses the world’s leading trade fair IFAT to present the solutions of its members to an international crowd in Munich. With “The Machine” and an associated multifunctional exhibition stand, VDMA Waste Treatment and Recycling Technology will design a plastics recycling theme […]
URBIOFIN project aims to demonstrate the techno-economic and environmental viability of an integrated biorefinery for the transformation of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) into new marketable bioproducts, chemical building blocks, biopolymers and additives. The project is coming close to its final course of implementation, following a five-year journey. The results are already […]
Scandinavian Enviro Systems intends to supplement the consultation documentation that has been submitted to the county administrative board in Västra Götaland ahead of a future permit application regarding the construction of a new recycling plant for end-of-life vehicle tires. When preparing the application, another alternative location for the recycling plant was identified, which is why […]
AMCS, one of the leading global suppliers of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource industries, announced that it has started a research collaboration with Confirm – the Science Foundation Ireland funded research centre for smart manufacturing hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland. This research collaboration will focus on the […]
Per Ravn Hermansen, former Greenland’s Ministry of Domestic Affairs, Nature and Environment, has “only a rough idea about the amount of municipal waste generated in Greenland”. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. In 2007, the Danish-Greenlandic Environmental Cooperation proclaimed that “we now have a new waste incineration plant, which means that we […]
Austrian-based ALPLA Group, a global manufacturer of plastic packaging and a recycling specialist, has acquired the manufacturer Verigreen Packaging based in Durban. Verigreen Packaging has a workforce of 25 employees at its site in Durban. The company specializes in bottles and canisters for lubricants such as engine oils. With the acquisition, the Austrian company is […]
Indian multinational steel-making company Tata Steel has commissioned its new Steel Recycling Plant with a capacity of a half-million tons per annum (0.5 MnTPA) at Rohtak, Haryana. It has been set up in collaboration with M/s Aarti Green Tech Ltd., as a “Build, Own, Operate” (BOO) partner. According to the steel maker, it is the […]
German-based plant engineering firm Stadler has signed an agreement with Orizon Valorização de Resíduos for the construction of the largest mechanical sorting plant in Brazil. Upon completion, the facility is expected to process 500,000 tons of solid waste per year in the country where the potential for recycling is growing. According to Stadler, the contractually […]
Twenty years ago, an academic paper registered “Barriers to Implementation of Waste-to-Energy Technologies in Brazil”. The list included lack of funds, spoke of an absence of consistent national policy and legislation, argued with the deficiency of detailed data collection and assessment, criticized higher direct investment costs and mentioned the public belief that WtE is worse […]
Environmental health experts at Australian Flinders University are advancing research into a sustainable wastewater recycling program by developing a cost-effective way to harvest microalgal biomass for use in biofuels and other applications. According to the research of Flinders University, the high-rate algal pond (HRAP) model, recycling wastewater at two regional South Australian locations at Kingston-on-Murray […]