Technology

The RECITURF Project, funded by the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), is developing new artificial turf recycling methods so this waste does not end up in landfills. New artificial turf can then be manufactured with the different plastics recovered from waste turf.

Researchers have shown how disposable face masks could be recycled to make roads, in a circular economy solution to pandemic-generated waste.

The global waste to energy market is expected to rise in demand as conventional energy sources are depleting rapidly while contributing to harmful emissions.

The ever-increasing amount of plastic, its impact on biodiversity and contribution to climate change, and how to deal with it in a circular economy perspective have been on the European Union’s policy agenda for years.

All employers have both a legal and moral responsibility to ensure a safe working environment with this being all the more important in high-risk industries.

German consulting company MVW Lechtenberg & Partner has been appointed to act as owner’s engineers for a new mechanical and biological treatment plant (MBT) which will be errected at the Shafdan complex in Rishon Lezion, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

In the greater Kuala Lumpur area, Malaysia’s largest waste management company, Kualiti Alam Sdn. Bhd, operates a landfill for the disposal of residual materials from several waste management companies.

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company and manufacturer of continuous filament glass fibers, has announced the launch of a thermal recycling unit for waste glass fibers in its Engineered Products plant in Trnava, Slovakia.

UniSort Unibot combines reliable sensor technology with modern robotics to further increase the efficiency of sorting facilities.

The Circularity Gap Report 2021 finds that efficient resource consumption can save 22.8 billion tonnes of carbon and help avoid climate breakdown.

Steinert presents its experience and developments in the digitalisation of the recycling industry in an online seminar and provides insight into how Europe’s largest sorting plant for lightweight packaging was made manageable using data.