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 […]
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 […]