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 […]
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, has announced the launch of its certified circular polycarbonate (PC) resin and blends. As reported by the company, this material made from the upcycling of post-consumer mixed plastic is a first in the industry. An internal SABIC LCA study had shown that the certified circular polycarbonate would […]
German-Polish producer Jelenia Plast and Polish plastic recycler ML Polyolefins have contracted the supply of polypropylene recyclate in the next step of their cooperation. The contract was signed by Jens Kröger on behalf of Jelenia Plast and Tomasz Mikulski, president of ML Sp. z o.o. As reported, the companies did not provide the exact value […]
In August this year, the Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) welcomed 12 new partners including leading consumer goods organizations, industry associations, governments, converters and recycling stewardship organizations from across Canada. The organization, tackling plastic waste and pollution as a multi-stakeholder, industry-led, cross-value chain collaboration platform, now has over 65 partners. The CPP brings together partners “who […]
Ekocharita, a Slovakian textile waste collection company, has revealed the results of a waste monitoring project using sensors from waste management solution provider Sensoneo. As of January 2021, Ekocharita began installing Sensoneo smart sensors to monitor the fill levels of their containers in real-time. By the end of June this year, they had monitored 600 […]
Austrian-based international technology Group Andritz has received an order from Renewcell to supply textile recycling equipment to its greenfield recycling plant in Sundsvall, Sweden. Core elements of the new recycling system will be the company’s ADuro shredders, which will reduce used textiles in one step to small pieces. “With unique capabilities, the ADuro shredders cut […]
As reported by Södra in June this year, a new investment in its pulp mill at Mörrum will achieve a tenfold increase in the OnceMore production capacity while also expanding the proportion of recycled textile in the pulp. According to Södra, Sweden’s largest forest owners association and an international forest industry group, the corporation can […]
USA-based paper products manufacturer Georgia-Pacific (GP) has opened a processing unit to recover fiber from particularly contaminated streams that would otherwise be landfilled. In Toledo (Oregon, USA), the first quarter of this year started with Georgia-Pacific’s material recovery facility (MRF), which has applied the Juno technology to recycle highly contaminated mixed materials. It is planned […]