industrial recycling Articles
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21st Century Programming To Give Away 50 1-Year Licenses for ESET Antivirus Software
Leading Software Solutions Provider to the Recycling Industry Insists Recyclers Take Precautions to Protect Their Web Security From Online Criminals LONG BEACH, CA (April 8, 2012) – 21st Century Programming, designers and distributors of ROM, ROM Express, ROM Recycler, ROM Brokerage and ROM Enterprise, today made a public service announcement imploring recyclers to take control of their ...
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Industrial recycling networks: results of rational decision making or "organised anarchies"?
Industrial recycling networks can be very effective in minimising impacts on the environment through material cycles and energy cascades within the industrial system. However, up to date, these have mainly been studied with material and energy flow analysis methods with only few attempts to address the human-dimension of the flows, the real actors and organisations that make the decisions on the ...
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Post-Industrial Recycled Plastics
Wastes can be generated from post-consumer and post-industrial, however, most wastes come from the industry. Waste can be found in every manufacturing facility and factory. It is impossible to eliminate post-industrial waste, however, it can be converted to post-industrial recycled material instead of going in landfills. What is Post-industrial Recycled Plastics The recycling process for ...
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Antivirus Software – A recycler`s first line of defense
Computer viruses have been around almost as long as computers. And no industry – not even the recycling industry – will be spared by malicious hackers, crackers and online criminals who want to gain access to a recycler’s database or their computer’s processing power. This case study is intended to assist recyclers in understanding the importance of installing antivirus ...
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Interview: Robert Voss - championing the recycling industry cause
Robert Voss is from a family steeped in recycling industry tradition and has been running his own international business since his early 30s. In this article, the new President of Eurometrec and the first-ever Chairman of the BIR’s International Trade Council shares his thoughts on a career in recycling and on some of the major issues confronting the ...
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Saving our customers money - Case study
INDUSTRY: RECYCLING EQUIPMENT USED: CARDINAL'S HARVESTER TRUCK SCALE WITH CARDINAL 225 INDICATOR One of our oldest customers called us one day and said that they thought they were losing money on recyclable materials they collected from the citizens of their town. They needed a solution for this issue but at the same time were on a tight budget restraint. “NO ...
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Recy Systems - 20 years of recycling software
Recy Systems, one of the world’s leading recycling software businesses, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Over the last two decades, the company has focused on providing products tailored to the needs of the recycling industries - an approach which has brought the firm a great deal of ...
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ELVs in China: the drive towards sustainability
Upwards of 5 million vehicles in China will be reaching the end of their useful lives by the year 2010, according to latest estimates. A figure of this magnitude represents, at once, a challenge and an opportunity for the country’s ELV recycling industry. This article provides an insight into current thinking within ...
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PACE: computing the way forward
A guidance document on the environmentally sound management of used and end-of-life mobile phones was agreed at the latest Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention in Bali. The same event also saw the launch of the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE) - an initiative considered to be worthy of the recycling industry’s close ...
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Recycling trends eCycling leadership initiative
Consumer electronics industry leaders have launched the first-ever industry-wide electronics recycling initiative to recycle one billion pounds of electronics annually by 2016, which would be a more than threefold increase over 2010. The eCycling Leadership Initiative seeks to improve consumer awareness of the more than 5,000 collection sites currently sponsored by industry; increase the amount ...
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Project - VERC - Virtual European Recycling Centre
Objectives The main objective of VERC is the provision of services to all recycling actors or customers through out Europe mainly using the most recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies. These services would deal to higher competitiveness of European Recycling Industry, more transparency in secondary materials exchanges, and increasing recycling ratios to reach the targets ...
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Recycling industry frustrated by shipping lines
Historically high oil prices, the weakness of the US dollar and an imbalance in container availability are seen as the main factors behind the sky-high freight rates demanded by container shipment companies. As a growing number of scrap exporters have come to rely on containerised rather than bulk transport, these increases are having an immediate effect on international scrap operators’ ...
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Optimal heat-reversible snap joints for frame-panel assembly in aluminium space frame automotive bodies
This paper presents a method for designing heat-reversible snap joints, locator-snap systems that detach non-destructively by heating a certain location of parts. It is expected to dramatically improve the recyclability of aluminium space frame (ASF) bodies by enabling clean separation of frames and body panels. Extending our previous work on the sequential design of the locators and heating area ...
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ExpoSucata: a recycling samba in Brazil
If evidence were needed that the key issues affecting the scrap industry are truly global in nature, this was supplied at last month’s ExpoSucata recycling show in São Paulo. The event spotlighted those matters of importance to Brazil’s growing recycling industry, including pricing and price volatility, metal theft and the trend towards consumer consolidation. Here, Recycling International ...
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Interorganisational cooperation for sustainable management in industry: on industrial recycling networks and sustainability networks
Industry plays a key role in the sustainable development of society. In this paper, the idea of sustainable resource management and circular economy will be discussed. On this basis, the concept of industrial recycling networks will be presented as a way of inter-organisational collaboration for recycling of by-products which not only helps reduce negative environmental impact of industry, but ...
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Recycling: Key Component of a Sustainable Development Strategy
Recycling is a fundamental element of the life cycle management of products and their constituent materials. Canada is a major producer of metals which are used in a wide variety of products both domestically and internationally. The recycling industry is a significant player in returning valuable materials back into the economy at the end of a products useful life. Manufacturers of many of these ...
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P200 2 Yard Vertical Compactor Video!
Harmony Enterprises prides itself on our ability to manufacture the widest range of waste and recycling equipment in the industry. We have been working hard to meet customer demand for product videos, providing new and updated content on nearly all of our industrial recycling balers and trash compactors. We are proud to be able to bring you the latest in our extensive library of product videos, ...
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Modern cable recycling with old school values
Colorado Industrial Recycling is combining old school values with new technology to continue a family tradition. The recycling industry is in Dave and Mike Koscove’s DNA. A quick look around the Colorado Industrial Recycling site in the United States and it’s clear it’s more than just a job for the fourth-generation recyclers. A conference table constructed from old engine ...
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The Recycling Industries - A Canadian Perspective
The recycling sector is part of the environmental technology industry sector and offers economic as well as environmental and resource conservation benefits. As a major player in the global resource sector Canadian mining and metallurgical industries continue to provide opportunities for technology transfer in areas including separation and materials handling for recyclables. The paper, with some ...
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Industrial symbiosis for more sustainable, localised industrial systems
Regionally distributed, small-scale production units prioritising the use of local resources and markets are likely to make a more solid contribution to regional sustainability than their centralised large-scale counterparts. We argue that the concept of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) can be refocused to support the development of such systems. To be useful in this way, better integration of ...
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