Technology

A traditional family-owned company proves that data-driven sorting increases throughput, improves product quality, and boosts profitability

The University of Birmingham has licensed the rights to a ‘supercritical water’ technology to Stopford, to develop a novel process for recycling mixed plastic packaging, that delivers a greater proportion of high value recycled plastic with less emissions, fewer processing steps than current recycling methods, and no solvent residues.

Textile consumption in Europe has on average the fourth highest impacts on the environment and climate, following consumption of food, housing and mobility.

With funding from CaixaBank and the Bancaja Foundation, Aimplas has completed a project to recover end-of-life fishing nets and other marine litter to manufacture furniture made of 100% recycled plastic.

Film and flexible packaging are excellent products from a performance point of view, which accounts for their stubbornly extensive use, but they present a difficult end-of-life issue.

Advancing the recycling industry with its state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting technologies and well-established partnerships with manufacturers of wood-based panels, TOMRA again taps into new opportunities by maximizing the use and recycling of waste wood.

The electronics recycling community, which was unable to meet last year, returned to its traditional venue in Salzburg on 18-21 January for its annual congress.

New research published today by Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) about incinerators in three countries – Spain, Czechia, and Lithuania – finds a high level of contamination in the vicinity of incinerators, posing a significant risk to the environment and to the health of people living nearby.

In a joint study, FEAD; CEWEP; the RDF Industry Group; and the Dutch Waste Management Association (DWMA), publish their findings for the potential for CO2 reductions within the waste management sector.

The RecyClass Conformity Assessment Scheme has been positively evaluated by the European co-operation for Accreditation

A collaborative project to test the usage of recycled phosphorus produced by EasyMining’s Ash2Phos process has successfully shown that the phosphorus recovered from incinerated sewage sludge works as a feed phosphate for livestock.