manufacturing waste News
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Understanding Waste Classification
All manufacturing waste is not the same. While this may be an obvious point, the fact is that there is no widely recognized standard for classifying such waste. Now, a proposed ASTM standard is being developed to help manufacturers address waste classification issues. WK38312, Classification for Waste From Manufacturing Facilities and Associated Support Facilities, covers all waste created in ...
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Axion: Manufacturing waste could unlock new revenue streams
‘Where there’s muck, there’s brass’, as the old saying goes. But this could ring true for manufacturers and processors who may be unaware of the financial value from the waste generated in their operations. That’s why two companies in the waste recycling, energy and environmental sectors have collaborated to launch a new Resource Recovery and Re-use service aimed ...
By Axion Group
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Providing waste management solutions to the manufacturing sector
If you’re a UK manufacturer then GPT Waste has the waste solution for you. Whether your business needs to dispose of hazardous chemicals or industrial coolants, remove metal swarf or recycle waste packaging, GPT Waste offer a nationwide waste management service covering all aspects of manufacturing. GPT’s waste management compliance team is on hand to keep customers up to date with ...
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PEL Launch PEL USA
PEL opens its first office in the USA as the first in the world as the “Under the Counter Bottle Crusher” phenomenon moves across the pond. Tommy Griffith, founder and CEO of PEL Waste Reduction Equipment who has created the solution to a huge waste mountain of glass and has successfully launched his product range in the USA. PEL manufactures waste reduction equipment for the ...
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IPEC supplied TDP-1 plant for waste tire processing
TDP-1 plant commissioning works were completed at the landfill of GP KО ЕSОО State Enterprise Waste Management Unified System in Kaliningrad region. IPEC company has designed and manufactured waste tyre pyrolysis plant with a capacity of 100 kg per hour. Batch Thermal Decomposition Plant (TDP-1) uses pyrolysis technology to thermally decompose used tires into liquid fuel, ...
By IPEC
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DRI Rubber Quietly Lead Rubber Recycling Sector
When we talk about rubber recycling, we tend to think mostly of tyre recycling, but DRI Rubber recycles around 50,000 tons of unvulcanised rubber each year. Mostly from manufacturing waste fromglob al tyre industry. All rubber product producers have waste – either off-spec waste or rejected materials. And these clean materials are an ideal feedstock for DRI Rubber, as they have the ...
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White Paper: The Business Case for Zero Waste
SOURCE: General Motors DESCRIPTION: Industrial facilities in the United States generate and manage 7.6 billion tons of nonhazardous industrial waste in land disposal units annually, according the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. General Motors, however, recycles 90 percent of its worldwide manufacturing waste and has 102 landfill-free facilities with a goal of 125 globally by 2020. The ...
By 3BL Media
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EPA Issues Proposed Expansion to Comparable Fuels Exclusion
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to allow certain manufacturing waste to be safely burned for energy recovery in industrial boilers. This action will remove unnecessary regulatory costs while maintaining current levels of protection of human health and the environment. EPA is proposing to expand the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's Hazardous Waste Comparable ...
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PEL Opens its First Office in the USA
PEL opens its first office in the USA as the first in the world as the “Under the Counter Bottle Crusher” phenomenon moves across the pond. Tommy Griffith, founder and CEO of PEL Waste Reduction Equipment who has created the solution to a huge waste mountain of glass and has successfully launched his product range in the USA. PEL manufactures waste reduction equipment for the ...
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European Organizations Issue Declaration on Waste Containing Nanomaterials
On April 13, 2016, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the European Environmental Citizens’ Organization for Standardization (ECOS), and the Oeko-Institut issued a press release announcing the availability of the Declaration on Waste Containing Nanomaterials. According to the press release, over 80 signatories have endorsed the Declaration, “demonstrating ...
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Plasterboard recycling making excellent progress, WRAP reveals
Excellent progress has been made by the UK plasterboard manufacturers in recycling waste plasterboard and significantly reducing the amount sent to landfill in the first year of the industry’s voluntary Ashdown Agreement, says WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) in a new report released today. Between April 2007 and March 2008 nearly 54,000 tonnes of plasterboard waste from construction ...
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Compact Ultrafilter Treats up to 1,500 GPD of Oily Wastewater
Sanborn Technologies, Walpole, MA has introduced the UFV750TV Ultrafiltration membrane system as a complete packaged plant to minimize disposal of oily wastewater from manufacturing facilities. Designed for unattended operation, the system includes a 330 gallon process tank with level controls and a 50 gallon cleaning tank. A variety of standard options such as transfer pumps and free-oil ...
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Subsea robot dives into nuclear clean-up
A robotic arm used in underwater environments in the oil and gas industry will be helping Dounreay workers clean out radioactive cells. The manipulator will segregate and package up low and intermediate level waste removed from inside concrete cells as the clean-up of the materials test reactor reprocessing plant gathers pace. The cells contained tanks and pipework which became contaminated ...
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ET Solar Obtains PV Product Carbon Footprint Verification from TUV SUD
ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announces that it has been granted the carbon footprint verification for its PV modules from TUV SUD Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. ("TUV SUD") Carbon footprint is an important indicator for the environmental friendliness of the product design, manufacturing, quality control and logistics of the applicant companies. The ...
By ET Solar
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Career Opportunities At Harmony!
Harmony Enterprises was founded in 1962 as a way to provide local residents with employment outside of the agricultural sector. Since that time, our company’s core focus has continued to be career, community, culture, and company. Not only does Harmony Enterprises offer career opportunities as one of the premiere manufacturers of waste and recycling equipment, it also encourages growth and ...
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Shredder Cuts Scrap Size, Volume
A new Titan 20 Shredder from Munson Machinery reduces the volume of scrap plastics, resins, fibrous products, fiberglass, wood products, paper/cardboard, gypsum wallboard, aluminum, glass, and other industrial, medical and manufacturing waste products by up to 80 percent. The shredder features dual rotors with extended cutter teeth that chop and shred heavy volumes of large solids with minimal ...
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Waste and recycling measures are most favoured by manufacturers
A new survey has found that reducing business waste, recycling and making energy efficiency improvements are the most common measures in environmental strategies enforced by manufacturers. Waste is the main environmental concern for manufacturers with over 90% of respondents having taken some form of action on waste management. Manufacturing body EEF’s Environmental Survey 2009 believes this is ...
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Great savings, crushing production waste for remanufacturing from HMH
500 to 600 t of clean concrete manufacturing waste are crushed every week at an English production site for coloured paving blocks used for foot paths, as well as flag stones and curb stones. An RM80 with 2 full und 2 short chrome hammers, closed to a gap of 15 mm, has been doing this job to the customer’s full satisfaction for 1,5 years now. The paving blocks e.g. are 200 mm long, 100 mm wide ...
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Harmony Welcomes Harmony Europe Support Manager To Team
Harmony Enterprises, the third generation, family-owned manufacturer of waste and recycling solutions is proud to announce the addition of Jonathon Cremer as Harmony Europe Support Manager. Jonathon is the son of third- generation owner and CEO, Steve Cremer, and brother to current President, Ramon Hernandez. In his new role, Jonathon will also serve as a member of Harmony’s EOS Leadership ...
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Plastic shredder supports new processing line at Indigo Environmental
Plastic recycling specialist Indigo Environmental has invested in a new UNTHA RS40 shredder to boost its processing capabilities of this problematic waste. Handling four tonnes of material per day, the four-shaft machine with ram-assisted hopper is transforming bulky and oversize plastics – including 240 litre wheelie bins, 205 litre HDPE drums and LDPE buckets – into a Passionate ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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