Technology

To neutralise the human impact on the climate, excess CO₂ must be removed from the atmosphere. According to Swiss scientists, excess renewable energy can be used to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and convert it to methane or methanol, which can then be processed into polymers, hydrogen and solid carbon. At the end of their life cycle, discarded building materials become the ultimate carbon sink. The article “Mining the atmosphere: A concrete solution to global warming” was published in “Resources, Conservation & Recycling”.

World PET Recycling, part of the Logoplaste Group, is a recycler of PET from Portugal. Annually, World PET produces around 12,000 tons of food-grade recycled PET (rPET).

Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (tkSE) has put a new annealing and isolating line in Bochum into service. The electrical steel strip processing line, supplied by SMS group, enables tkSE to produce high-grade NGO steel (non-grain-oriented electrical steel strip).

The manually operated PHSH shredder from Höcker Polytechnik can shred up to 8,000 kg of material per hour into handy, easily transportable pieces. The shredded material is then fed to an existing disposal line either via conveyor belt or via an extraction hood and can be prepared for pressing.

The Brazilian recycling company Grupo Ecological, based in Limeira, has two plastic recycling lines dedicated to processing challenging post-consumer and post-industrial plastics into high-quality regranulate.

Lipor, founded in 1982, is responsible for waste treatment in eight municipalities in the Greater Porto area, a region which is home to more than one million people.

The 250tph wash plant is allowing Swerock AB to repurpose its quarry overburden for use in the local construction market

The new Circular Plastic sorting plant by Iren the largest plastic sorting and storage facility in Italy.

Steinertis starting to gradually update its KSS sorting systems to the EVO 6.0 generation, with state-of-the-art features for detection and maintenance.

Stadler and Everwave have launched a project for the development of the world’s first mobile sorting container, SortX, to combat plastic pollution in rivers.

Steinert Splitcontrol, the latest add-on for Steinert eddy current separators, optimises the sorting quality of incineration bottom ash and additional fine-grain applications.