Cooperation Secures Plastic Waste for Fuel Production

Norwegian companies Quantafuel and Geminor have entered a cooperation agreement to secure deliveries of plastic waste to Quantafuel’s plants for fuel production. Since 2007 energy firm Quantafuel AS has developed and tested its own patented catalyst solution that converts plastic waste into low emission fuels and products for the petrochemical industry, a press release said. […]

French-Singaporean Cooperation on E-Waste

In March, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA – Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) launched a research center to develop innovative e-waste recycling technologies. The new center – named the NTU Singapore-CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (NTU SCARCE) – will focus […]

Ways to Liberate the Valuable Metals

Should scrap merchants be paying greater attention to e-waste recycling? ‘A throwaway society’ is one of the primary reasons why countries worldwide now face a mounting e-scrap (or WEEE – Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) problem. In fact, the global magnitude of the issue is driving ongoing legislative changes with increasingly tricky targets to meet. […]

Itronics Starts R&D to Recover Tin and Copper

In January this year, USA-based Itronics Inc., a producer of fertilizers and silver products, announced that it has recently started research and development to recover tin and copper from the silver bullion being produced by its printed circuit board refining pilot plant. According to the company, tin was on the list of 35 minerals deemed […]

Products with Chemically Recycled Plastics

The German chemical concern BASF has for the first-time manufactured products based on chemically recycled plastic waste, the company informed some weeks ago. According to the information, BASF wants to make a significant contribution in reducing the amount of plastic waste. “With our ChemCycling project, we are using plastic waste as a resource. In this […]