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Material pollution in waste paper recycling

A special shredding plant works in continuous operation and can be serviced without long downtimes Who removes the plastic rings from the empty writing pad or tears the plastic off the chocolate Advent calendar before disposing of it? Certainly not all of us. In this way, foreign materials and impurities find their way into the waste paper and these have to be removed during the recycling ...

Jun. 20, 2013

By Erdwich Zerkleinerungs-Systeme GmbH

Paper mill waste recycling solution - Great value exists in the Paper Mill Waste recycling

With the raising awareness of protecting forest and grass, most paper mills choose to recycle waste paper as raw materials to produce paper. Various waste paper can be used to remake paper, like carton box, office documents, cardboard for package.etc. A report shows that a recycled paper mill with an annual output of 1 million 500 thousand tons will produce 180 thousand tons" paper making waste ...

Nov. 21, 2017

By Harden Shredder Machinery Ltd.

Design, manufacture and testing of a waste paper recycling system

Egypt is facing a major crisis due to the 1997's 40% increase in the price of imported newsprint. This price increase not only affected the press and publishers, but also placed a burden on the educational system, because most of the government textbooks depend on this type of imported paper. This crisis can be solved entirely by recycling waste paper and depending on recycled paper instead of ...

Jan. 25, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Paper Recycling - Case Study

The problem: The UK is the largest producer of wallpaper worldwide. The British wallpaper industry is situated around Darwen, Blackburn. Many of the wallpaper mills are operated in crowded old factory buildings. Once a leading wallpaper manufacturer Crown Wallpaper (also known as the Crown Wallpaper Company) was an agglomeration of wallpaper manufacturers in the United Kingdom since ...

May 15, 2017

By Dirk European Holdings LTD

Developments in the paper recycling industry

The purpose of paper recycling is to produce high quality recycled paper, responding to the high-quality specifications required by paper consumers either from the graphic, hygiene or packaging sectors. In consequence, any collection scheme shall be designed in a way to provide grades of paper for recycling adapted to the requirements of a high value ...

Dec. 10, 2018

By REDWAVE - a division of BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH

Americans are recycling more paper than ever

Americans are recycling paper at an all-time high, recapturing more than 300 pounds per person each year. That's about half the paper produced in the United States. In addition to improvements in the tactics of waste paper collection, recycling is gaining from China's suddenly ravenous appetite for U.S. scrap paper. Its hunger for recycled paper is fueled by its own shortage of wood pulp and a ...

Feb. 12, 2005

By Shred-Tech Corp.

Paper and Cardboard - Recovery or Disposal?

To provide a solid basis for policies and policymakingin the field of waste management, the environmental and economic impacts causedby different waste treatment options should be examined. In recent years, a large number of studies comparing recycling with recovery or final disposal have been published, which are based on life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA). To the ...

Jun. 29, 2006

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

Three-win strategy with optimisation approach for recycled paper manufacturer

Waste-minimisation strategies are of vital importance for decreasing waste, pollution load and production costs. This enhances the importance of reverse logistics. In this study, a 'Three-win' strategy has been developed for the paper industry in India by considering two Linear Programming (LP) models. The models are for paper production from wastepaper and from lumber as raw materials. Economic ...

May 9, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Views and attitudes of Burgas’s residents (Bulgaria) for paper recycling

The present study aims to examine the views and attitudes of Burgas’ residents in Bulgaria. The research was carried out with the help of structured questionnaire; and the method of personal interview was used. In particular, it explores the views and attitudes of residents of Burgas on recycling, their views and attitudes on the cleanliness and waste management in the city and their knowledge ...

Aug. 26, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

Paper Industry Wastewater

Standard discharge, reclaimed water reuse and zero effluent discharge 1. Pulping Wastewater is the most difficult wastewater to be treated in the papermaking industry. The organic pollutants and inorganic salts are high in content, complex in composition, high in hardness, high in costs. The technical staff of JIUWU work with experts from the Institute of Membrane Science and Technology of ...

Apr. 7, 2019

By Jiangsu Jiuwu Hi-tech Co

On the prevailing construction waste recycling practices

Waste generated from construction and building demolition work constitutes about 68% of all solid waste generated each year in South East Queensland. Consequently, it has created a serious waste management problem. The State Governments of Victoria and New South Wales have been encouraging the use of recycled materials from construction and related waste; they have also promulgated specifications ...

Feb. 28, 2009

By SAGE Publications Ltd

UNTHA optimises WtE production and metal recycling at Turkish paper mill

An UNTHA shredder is now fully operational in Turkey’s first solid waste incineration plant. The single step XR3000C has transformed Modern Enerji’s approach to metal recycling, at the same time as boosting the production of ...

Oct. 12, 2016

By UNTHA Shredding Technology Gmbh

Identification and accumulation of aromatic sensitizers in fish from paper recycling in Japan

Aromatic sensitizers and related compounds (SRCs) originating from thermal recording material as impurities in waste paper have been detected in aquatic environments near cities where the paper industry is flourishing. In the present study, the levels of exposure to such SRCs and the stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) in different fish species (Konosirus punctatus, Takifugu niphobles, and ...

Apr. 27, 2012

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Paper waste as far as the eye can reach - Case Study

On the outskirts of Nashville, there’s a plant that’s making the most out of printing waste. Combined Resources is a paper recycler that encourages companies to “save money while reducing their carbon footprint.” For this reason, it makes a lot of sense that they own a WEIMA shredder. When you enter the plant, you’ll immediately see an enormous, red WEIMA WLK 18 ...

Sep. 17, 2015

By WEIMA

Assessment of recycling potential of municipal solid waste in Mauritius

The purpose of this paper is to implement a Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) which would divert valuable resources to recycling centres. It assessed materials having attractive scrap values such as glass, PET bottles and Used Beverages Cans (UBC). In this paper, two scenarios were proposed, namely: Scenario 1 which dealt with the selling of recyclables to recycling plants and Scenario 2 which ...

Sep. 25, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

UNTHA XR shredders aid closed loop recycled paper production

Two UNTHA XR waste shredders are now in operation for VPK Packaging Group in continental Europe, shredding pulped ropes as part of a closed loop paper production process. ...

Jul. 10, 2018

By UNTHA Shredding Technology Gmbh

Paper sorting plant in Alton, UK

This plant receives recyclable waste from households in the Hampshire area on a single stream. In each of the two parallel lines 12 tons are sorted every hour. TITECH is present with four units. One TITECH polysort® is sorting mixed plastics and a second TITECH polysort® is sorting paper. On a separate line we have installed two TITECH papersort® units cleaning the de-ink fraction. ...

Mar. 22, 2009

By TOMRA Sorting GmbH

The myth of `residual waste`

Recently, I was asked by my good friend John Nicholson (a consultant and contributing editor to this magazine) to address a meeting of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA) Ontario Sector, regarding my position on generating energy from 'residual waste.' This invitation provided me with the opportunity to research the composition of so-called residual waste -- you know, the roughly 35 ...

Jun. 29, 2008

By EcoLog Environmental Resources Group

Recycling Balers And Types

Recycling balers are an important asset to the recycling efforts. There are several different kinds of balers that can be used depending on the purpose and type of material that need to be recycled. It is important to not only learn about the different types of balers, but also to understand their functioning. What ...

Jul. 9, 2013

By Compactor Management Company

Recycling Equipment

Recycling helps our environment by slowing down the rate at which we have to burn garbage or put it in landfills. Disposing of your garbage is becoming much more expensive, as Americans are producing more solid waste, landfills are filling up, and recycling programs are trying their best to keep up with the increase in waste generated per capita each year. Between the cost of renting dumpsters, ...

Dec. 31, 2006

By Bee Cool LLC

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