Chinese Company Treats Kitchen Waste with New Shredders

Austrian manufacturer Andritz has delivered two shredders for kitchen waste treatment to Grandblue Bioenvironment Co., Ltd., which is operating at its mills in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province, and Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, China. The two new ADuro QZ1600-BIO shredders process kitchen waste at a design capacity of 15 tons per hour each and pulp the […]

Innovation Update for Recycling Applications

Doosan Infracore Europe, a global industry leader in engineering and manufacturing compact and heavy construction equipment, has launched a new Waste and Recycling Kit for the company’s DL-7 range of wheel loaders. As reported, it is the first kit of its type for Doosan wheel loaders and is designed to help operators work safely in […]

Eriez’ Shred1 Achieves Ultra-High Purity Steel From Scrap

At present, vehicles are tightly regulated to limit environmental impact when they are scrapped. This is done through various measures to encourage the recovery, reuse and recycling of metals, plastics and rubber to reduce the amount of waste created. However, beyond the considerations of environmental impact lies huge value for recyclers with the right tools […]

Hammel Recyclingtechnik: End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling – “from Trash to Gold”

What happens to old cars at the end of their useful life? A car consists of valuable raw materials, 75% metal (steel, copper, light metals, precious metals), besides glass, tires and other plastics. With an unladen weight of one ton, a vehicle consists of approximately 600 kg of steel, 10 kg of cast iron and […]

Bunting Builds Monster Stainless Steel Separator

The latest Stainless Steel Separation Conveyor (SSSC) leaving Bunting’s manufacturing facility in Kansas, USA is the largest built so far. The model SSSC 12-24-462 may only be 0.61-metres wide, but sits at the end of an 11.6-metre long conveyor. The high-intensity magnetic separator is destined for installation in an automotive recycling plant in North Carolina. […]

Recycling to Create New Value: The Potential of Aluminum and the Innovative Solutions for its Processing

The increasing consumption of resources and the rapid technological change are contributing to a rising need for investment in advanced and material-specific recycling systems. One of the most valuable materials that can be recycled is aluminum. Indeed, thanks to its characteristics, aluminum is considered a circular material, capable of being recycled multiple times without losing […]

Recycleye Secures Funding from DCVC

Recycleye, provider of an AI-driven solution for sorting dry mixed recycling, has announced a 17 million US-Dollar Series A financing round led by deep-tech venture capital firm DCVC. The company with head offices in UK and France uses AI-powered waste-picking robots to lower the cost of sorting materials. “This ground-breaking technology is turning the world’s […]

Artificial Intelligence Applied to the Plastics Sector

The EU has just confirmed its commitment to a global agreement to end plastic pollution by 2040. This is a historic step to end the pollution of an industry that has multiplied its waste in recent decades, and that generates 400 million tons per year. It is the most important public effort since the Paris […]

ARJES: Large-Scale Tire Recycling Demo

At the German trade fair Recycling­AKTIV & TiefbauLIVE 2023 (RATL 2023, 27th – 29th April, Karlsruhe), the manufacturer of double-shaft shredders ARJES and its sales partner HWH Machines will be showing off the process of pre-shredding truck and tractor tires – one of the first and most crucial steps in the recycling loop. During the […]

Air-based Technology Facilitates Plastics Recovery

According to England-based company Impact Air Systems, utilizing air-based technology to conduct waste sorting tasks is in huge demand due to its cost-effective and efficient technique. This is why this kind of technique is being selected for use in many recycling facilities around the world, saving thousands of tons of recyclable plastics, and other materials, […]