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 […]
Ireland-based company CDE has commissioned its first solution in Belgium for family-owned business De Bree Solutions as it upgrades its 20-year-old equipment range. Founded in the 1970s, the Belgian company is a sewage and waste collection service provider. Having expanded its focus over the past five decades, De Bree Solutions is active in industrial cleaning, […]
Fact.MR, a provider of data-driven market intelligence, has recently launched a report on Medical Waste Management Market. The market is expected to surpass 22 billion US-Dollar by the end of 2021-2031, which means a – projected – CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of more than three percent, the company informed. “Increasing hospitalization rates is compounding […]
PET flakes can now be processed without pre-drying into pellets using Coperion’s ZSK twin-screw extruders, the worldwide active German-based producer of machines and material handling systems underlined. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plays an ever more important role in recycling, due to the large volume of packaging materials in use today. Before this material can be reprocessed, […]
International technology group Andritz has signed a cooperation agreement with USA-based CIRC LLC. The goal is to bundle each party’s expertise in textile recycling and upscale CIRC’s recycling technology for commercial use, the Austrian plant manufacturer gave account. The agreement has come about after many months of successful CIRC processing trials in various Andritz research […]
Norway-based Geminor and Norwegian waste company “Renovasjon i Grenland” (RIG) have agreed to handle up to 35,000 tons of residual waste for five years. The waste will be sorted into several recyclable fractions in one of Scandinavia’s newest robot sorting plants. As reported by Geminor, the resource management company will handle and treat approximately 7,000 […]
One of Britain’s leading car salvage, dismantling and recycling companies, SYNETIQ, recovers enough aluminum to create 346 million drinks cans per year. On average, the company extracts more than 5,200 tons of aluminum during the vehicle recycling process each year. This amount is sufficient to make 346 million drinks cans, a press release informed. Then […]