industrial waste recovery News
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Start-up of the 500th BRT HARTNER Bag Opener
Ibbenbüren / Herten. The sorting plant of AGR-DAR in Herten processes, sorts and assembles light weight packaging material for recycling. This procedure starts with the BO Bag Opener from BRT HARTNER: the BO with integrated feed hopper is filled by wheel loader with the bags stored in the reception hall. The incorporated moving floor conveyor with a new, modified drive pushes the material to ...
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PRN market faces hard year
Key industry figures involved in the market for Packaging (Waste) Recovery Notes are “cautiously optimistic” about the year ahead but have acknowledged that it will be a difficult year. There has been a strong demand for aluminium beverage cans in recent months and last month aluminium can recycler Novelis increased the price it paid for the material by £100 a tonne. Aluminium Packaging ...
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Plastics industry to launch major campaign in UK
The plastic industry is to launch a major campaign this summer aimed at engaging ministers, MPs, opinion formers and the general public in a wide-ranging debate on plastics and waste management issues. Three trade bodies: the British Plastic Federation, Plastics Europe and the Packaging and Films Association are sponsoring the campaign, called Plastics 2020, which will facilitate an open ...
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Professor Willy Verstraete at Ecomondo: “Revolutionary prospects from waste water recovery”
He’s an unquestionable international authority on microbiology applied to the treatment of waste water and organic waste. Willy Verstraete, professor emeritus at Ghent University (Belgium), he has countless publications, among those most cited in his area of study, to his name. Heading the Flemish Science Council (FWO) as of this year, a Belgian institution to support the ...
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RecyclePak Provides a New Approach to Recycling & Waste Management for Veolia Environmental Services
As a leader in waste management and recycling within Australia, Veolia Environmental Services can help businesses to reduce waste and recycle more, by implementing the RecyclePak system. RecyclePak offers businesses the opportunity to divert a vast range of recyclable materials, with a dedicated bin/receptacle for each stream. RecyclePak therefore is now not only related to the recovery of ...
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UK paper packaging waste recovery levels smash targets, rising to 84%
Data released from the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) shows that the UK paper packaging recycling industry has smashed its targets within the Packaging Waste Regulations.If the 2007 NPWD recovery levels for paper packaging waste are maintained into 2008 then the UK will achieve a recovery rate for UK paper packaging waste of 78% against an EU Directive target of 60%. In terms of UK ...
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Determining the municipality waste fees and way of payment in Japan - Mariusz Grabda
Dr. Eng. Mariusz Grabda is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Environmental Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences, and currently a post-doc fellow in the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials of Tohoku University in Japan. His primary research concerned on utilization of geothermal heat and natural utilization of sewage sludge. In recent years, his ...
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Recycling waste packages in Japan. Construction waste recovery - Mariusz Grabda
Dr. Eng. Mariusz Grabda is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Environmental Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences, and currently a post-doc fellow in the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials of Tohoku University in Japan. His primary research concerned on utilization of geothermal heat and natural utilization of sewage sludge. In recent years, his ...
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Hunting for Hidden Treasure - The International Trade Fair for Waste Management and Environmental Technology shows how waste can be turned into valuable resources
Urban mining — the recovery of raw materials from waste — is the vision of the future for the global waste-management industry. This aims to conserve natural resources and protect the environment, but that's not all. For today, there are also increasingly good business reasons to recycle and reuse materials from the waste generated in advanced economies. This is because of a growing demand — and ...
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