plastic waste Articles
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Interreg Europe Project Plasteco - Case Study
The reduction of plastic waste is the overall goal of this project with its slogan “Supporting EU regions to curb plastics waste and littering”. Project goal and activities The Department of Environment, Sustainability and Migration of the City of Augsburg has mandated the Cluster of Environmental Technologies Bavaria with the PLASTECO project. The “Forum Plastic-free ...
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APChemi`s Director, Suhas Dixit to address at 8th Flexible Packaging Global Summit-2019
Please block your calendar for 22nd and 23rd of August to attend our 8th Flexible Packaging Global Summit-2019 at Sahara Star Mumbai. We already have Over 850 attendees confirmed from 17 countries. Shri Amitabh Kant, IAS, CEO, NITI Aayog, Secretary, DCPC, Govt. of India, Commissioner BMC, Chairman, MPCB; Chairman UFLEX; CEO Reliance; Director APChemi, Senior officials of Government; R&D ...
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Reduce Plastic Waste
Introduction In the hindsight, humanity got all the wishes granted when the process of transforming brown putrid slime into revolution i.e., plastic was discovered. Being inexpensive, germ-free, and expedient, plastic changed lives. But this sensation of chemistry got a little out of control as it has drenched the environment; it has penetrated the animals’ on which humans are dependent ...
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Baled post consumer, STQ-50EL, Ontario, Canada - Case Study
STQ-50EL shredding bales of post consumer plastic waste as feedstock for waste to energy ...
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Suhas Dixit`s Address at 8th Flexible Packaging Global Summit-2019
On 22nd and 23rd of August, Suhas Dixit, Director of APChemi (Agile Process Chemicals LLP delivered a keynote speech on "Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste". All of us share a common vision to see a world: where people rightfully respect plastics as a sustainable, well-engineered, environment-friendly & circular-economy product for the modern society. Let’s not ban single-use ...
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PET bottle on the river Tisza
It is our great pleasure to introduce the latest development of our innovative engineering team: PET bottles, equipped with GPS transmitter. The project is part of Tisza PET Cup research and development programme, and aims to follow path of plastic waste along the river Tisza (2nd longest river of Hungary). Both development and production are the merit of our coworkers. Tracking the PET ...
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UK plastic waste set to rise 20% by 2030
The UK is set to produce 20% more plastic waste in 2030 than it does this year, with the amount of discarded takeaway drink cups and lids set to rise by a third. A report released today by the WWF to mark Earth Hour reveals that the UK will generate 6.3 million tonnes of plastic waste in 12 years, compared to 5.2 million in 2018. It also highlights how Britain is the fifth highest ...
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Metal In Plastic Waste
The global focus on managing plastic waste continues to intensify. There is an emphasis on improving collection to ensure plastic waste does not enter the ecosystem. Once collected, the next issue is dealing with that plastic waste, by either re-introducing into the plastics process as a raw material or using it in another product such as plastic roads. However, being able to convert plastic ...
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Flake Sorting: Innovation in Plastics Recycling
The proper management of plastic waste is one of the main environmental concerns of our time. The production of plastics, its rapid consumption and its widespread dumping in the natural environment – both on land and at sea – has increased exponentially in the last 70 years.?The European Investment Bank (EIB) has presented a ?new study?analyzing the inefficiencies of the plastics ...
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Plastics waste management and resource recovery in India
Exponential growth in plastic production and consumption has evoked concerns for its effective management. Within a decade, India has witnessed a substantial growth of 890% and 340% in plastic production and per capita consumption, respectively. Plastic recycling industries have mushroomed autonomously and accounts for 47% of annual recycling. Further, unscientific collection, transportation, ...
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Honduras’ Invema Corporation - At the Heart of Recycling - Case Study
Plastic Waste Is A Global Problem Single use plastics are designed to for one time use and disposal. One of the most common types of single use plastics is packaging. Nearly half of all plastic waste comes from packaging containers. Over 8 million metric tons of plastic waste end up in our world’s oceans every year. Not alarmed yet? By 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans ...
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Financial Costs of Plastics Marking
Abstract Recycling and reuse of plastic material can assist reducing the amounts of plastic waste to dispose of, and reducing resource use in plastic production. Mandatory marking of plastics presents a possible means for increasing the current rates of recycling and reuse. This study determines the financial costs for the EU plastic converter industry of using certain mandatory marking schemes ...
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The menace of plastic. A worldwide plague.
So shouldn’t everyone be more aware of the many environmental benefits that come with the incineration of plastic waste? It’s probably true to say that virtually everyone is now well aware of the risks that plastic, especially single-use plastic items such as bags, cups, bottles and drinking straws etc, pose to our planet. In fact only today it has been reported that a dead whale, ...
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2020 Recycling Challenges
The focus on environmental issues and recycling reached new highs in 2019. Public awareness of the global climatic challenges of waste management changed the political agenda. The UK’s 2019 general election included serious inter-party debate about the environment for the first time. The European Union stepped forward and set new recycling targets. However, despite the rhetoric, changes ...
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Hot Topic of Plastic Waste
The global backlash against plastics and plastic waste was top of the agenda at this year’s K Show (Dusseldorf, Germany 16-23 October 2019). Indeed, many of the people visiting the Bunting stand were plastic waste processors looking for metal separators. The K Show is the largest plastics-focused exhibition in Europe and attracts exhibitors from all over the world. There has been a ...
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Plastic to Diesel Oil Plant in Finland - Case Study
In July, 2016, Huayin plastic solid wastes to diesel oil plant under installtion in Finland. This customer collects plastic solid wastes and process 10ton plastics per day, the final products will be diesel oil. Below are the detailed information: ...
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Plastic recycling pyrolysis plant
Plastic waste can be seen everywhere in our daily life and it brings about serious pollution problem. But on the other hand, it is also a kind of precious potential resource and it is meaningful to dispose waste plastics in an effective method. To grasp the great business opportunity, Doing group has successfully developed the new design waste plastic recycling pyrolysis plant . The waste ...
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Better Recycling With Plastic Hungry Enzymes
Summary Household plastic waste is an increasing global problem as the annual supply of new plastics greatly outweighs their rate of biodegradation or recycling. Discovery of a new enzyme from plastic-eating bacteria, may hold the key for improving plastic recycling and reducing the amount of plastic waste in our ...
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Bolina helps Ichthion deploy its Azure system in Ecuadorian river - Case Study
Bolina helps Ichthion deploy its Azure system in an Ecuadorian river in an effort to clean up massive amounts of plastic waste in a delicate and important ecosystem. In April 2020, Ichthion, the award-winning UK-based developer of technologies to decrease plastic pollution in our oceans, was selected as one of the nine members of the Clean Currents Coalition (CCC) of the Benioff Ocean Initiative ...
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Oct. 2018 Evolution: From Plastic Sorting to Process Analysis of Secondary Fuels
In Europe, the amount of plastics wastes produced amounts to about 25 million tonnes a year. On the average, no less than 37 kg plastic waste a year will be produced by each German, this amount being based on nothing else but packaging waste [1]. Quite often these plastics will end up as micro-plastics in the air, in the soil and in the sea and thus in our foodstuffs. To counteract this adverse ...
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