organics recycling Articles
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Industry Responds To Revised European Parliament Report On Waste Legislation
On June 9, 2016, European Bioplastics (EUBP) announced the support of a European Parliament (EP) report emphasizing the role of bioplastics in the creation of a circular bioeconomy. The report, produced by Italian MEP Simona Bonafè¨, outlines legislation that is needed to use waste more efficiently to create bio-based materials. Increasing the value of waste by promoting its use to ...
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Wembley City - case study
Wembley City is a development by Quintain Estate and Development PLC of 85 aces of land surrounding the new national stadium. The development will comprise of 4,200 flats, a designer outlet shopping facility, a new Hilton hotel plus retail, leisure and entertainment venues. The waste handling at Wembley is an important part of the infrastructure of the development. The main reason the Envac ...
By Envac AB
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Information exchanges between experts for thermoset composites design for recycling
The use of composites in industry is ever increasing. However, end-of-life solutions for composites are still under development. In this paper, a solution linking design strategies with a recycling process for thermoset composite materials is proposed. The recovery solution for these materials is a supercritical water solvolysis process. The needs and multi-disciplinary skills required for ...
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Six ways recycling can boost small business
In today’s economy, keeping a small business afloat can seem like an uphill battle. And while recycling is often thought of as a social responsibility rather than a cash-cow, the chasing arrows can often bolster your bottom-line just as much as crunching numbers and cutting back on overhead. Don't believe us? Check out these six ways recycling can help your small business save money and ...
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What Businesses Need to Know About New Requirements for Maryland’s Food Waste Generato
Summary of New Requirements Beginning January 1, 2023, commercial entities that generate more than 2 tons per week of food residuals and are located within 30 miles of an organics recycling facility will be required to separate and divert food residuals away from final disposal in landfills and incinerators. Business Required to Comply Entities impacted by the new legislation are those that: ...
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Gender and sustainable consumption: policy implications
This research finds that women are more likely than men to consume sustainably based on a case study of Swedish families. Sustainable consumption includes activities such as buying green and fair trade products, reducing travel, eating organic foods, and recycling. According to this research, women express more interest in sustainable living and spend more time seeking information on sustainable ...
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Case Study- Industrial laundry facility
BEFORE RECYNOV-L 50 m3/day of water heated to 60 ° AFTER RECYNOV-L 80% of recycled water, reusable and already heated to 60 ° Only 10 m3/day of water to be heated CUSTOMER TESTIMONY What solution was used before NEREUS? The recycling solution previously used was significantly undersized and quality of recycled water was thus not reached and did not meet international standards. How ...
By Nereus SAS
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Project - SCARE
Strategic Care Project Motivation In Europe is now a clear societal need for take-back and recycling of electronic products. “Closing the loop” would serve several (partly interlinked) goals, such as: Reduction of the amount of materials and environmentally relevant substances going to landfill, Control of environmentally relevant substances (inorganic) or annihilation of such ...
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Towards sustainable society: from materialism to post-materialism
Finnish university students (n = 198) assessed their attitudes and achievements in implementation of sustainable development in their daily life. The data were collected using a theory-grounded semantic differential technique. A measurement instrument was created by balancing 36 variables of environmental, economic and social sustainability. As a result of logistic regression analysis ...
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Mattress recycling project case study
Large hotel client was replacing 400 mattresses and box springs, they needed to find a solution to reduce, reuse and recycle these items. The cost to dispose of each mattress and box spring was S20 per item, the hotel faced a disposal fee charge of over $16,000.00. The average mattress is 23 cubic feet and 70 lbs each. Mattresses are 60% steel and 40% soft stuff (foam, textiles), box springs ...
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A tyre`s journey - Where do end-of-life tyres go?
The global business in waste tyres is growing exponentially. According to United Nations earlier this year, the international trade of waste tyres has almost doubled in the past five years. In 2018 2 million tonnes (equivalent of 200 million tyres) of rubber waste was traded internationally, compared to just 1.1 million tonnes of 2013. But what exactly happens to a tyre, once it reaches the end ...
By Tana Oy
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How do Local Communities & Organizations Impact Recycling?
Recycling eliminates the need for raw material extraction, refining, and processing, all of which pollute the air and water. Recycling saves energy while also lowering greenhouse gas emissions, which aids in the fight against climate change.These are some of the countries that have succeeded in getting citizens to work together to achieve high levels of recycling. Medford: Being conscious ...
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Harden Organic Waste Management Project in Taohua Island, Zhejiang
Benefit of Organic Waste Management Organic materials come from living plants and animals, like fruit and vegetables waste, kitchen waste, supermarket waste, expired food waste, etc. Organic waste are best managed as a resource rather than a waste. Organic waste are part of our life, how to manage organic waste and turn them into valuable and clean resource is a high priority of the organic waste ...
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Recommendations For Locating Affordable Tire Pyrolysis Machines
The opportunity to recycle material is easier than ever before today. From aluminum cans to even organic material, recycling machines are generating this an actuality for folks and businesses. Additionally it is a profitable technique of doing your part to aid the planet. However, when you are in a business in charge of discarding rubber tires, you are likely doing this because of the money. You ...
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Municipal Solid Waste Management Market in the U.S. to cross $25bn by 2024
The U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Management Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $17 billion to over $25 billion by 2024; as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc. Increasing population on account of significant surge in the number of foreign immigrants will stimulate the municipal solid waste management market. According to the EPA from 1960-2016, ...
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A case study in land and water regeneration to reduce the impact of climate change by soil bio-sequestration of atmospheric carbon
The whole of landscape regenerative processes are being studied to determine their effect upon carbon bio-sequestration in agricultural soils. The Mulwaree Ponds drainage system, south of Sydney, shows the effects of overgrazing by fine wool sheep over the past 160 years and the resultant loss of perennial groundcover causing nutrient leaching into Sydney's drinking water catchment. Natural ...
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Composting vs. Recycling – Drawing a Line to Differentiate Between the Two Waste
Being a citizen of the modern day ‘Zero Waste’ community, a person needs to learn where to draw a line of differentiation between the items that need to be recycled and the ones that should be composted, or the unfortunate ones that must find their place in normal trash. Recycling and composting are the two environmental friendly methods for handling solid municipal waste. Using ...
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Placing recycle bins in public places to be noticed
It is often the case that even though a large commercial space has taken green initiatives by placing appropriate containers for recyclable and non-recyclable waste, people tend to overlook those and just throw the rubbish in the handiest bin. This is a persistent problem in hotels, shopping malls, restaurants, offices, and even on the streets and parks. The reasons for this are that the majority ...
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The performance of UASB reactors treating high-strength wastewaters
In the study reported here, the authors investigated the influence of hydraulic loading rate, organic loading rate, and recycle rate on the performance of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors treating high-strength wastewaters. For this purpose, they used two identical reactors. The removal rates for chemical oxygen demand (COD), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), total phosphorus (TP), ...
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Waste recovery and recycling: organic waste
In the circular economy, organic waste, which is an important component of both the total waste generated and the recycling and recovery targets, is collected and transformed into a compost and biogas, generating numerous environmental and social ...
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