high waste production Articles
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How does Gain work
How does Gain work in the field of waste collection? Gain Company is a start-up and operates in both local and international forms. The company is doing this using its new platform. In its first version, this platform has two applications and a website. This systematic triangle through artificial intelligence allows families to earn money by selling their waste. Also, many employees and workers ...
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Shredding hard plastics brings new business and helps to reduce non-disposable plastic pollution - Case Study
In a world filled with plastic packaging, which accumulates in the environment and oceans, it is vitally important to move towards a greater level of recycling and reducing plastic waste. One step towards this goal was achieved by our customer in Belgium, which uses the TANA Shark waste shredder to shred hard plastics. The versatility of the TANA Shark is helping them adapt to the changing needs ...
By Tana Oy
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Environment Agency Environmental Management Quality Protocols: converting waste into non-waste products
Many organisations are unaware of how waste impacts their bottom line. The EU Waste Framework Directive outlines 5 core steps for dealing with waste and when ranked according their environmental impact, they make up the ‘waste hierarchy’. With an increase in demand for resources and increasing input costs, businesses could benefit substantially from adopting the waste hierarchy. The ...
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Separating Ferrous Metals When Recycling Printer Cartridges
A high-strength Rare Earth Drum Magnet separates the ferrous metal constituent of shredded secondary laser and toner cartridges at BCMY’s UK cartridge recycling operation. The efficient removal of ferrous metal protects downstream shredders, whilst also maximising the purity of the end recycled product. Technical product information: Drum Magnet ...
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Waste Wood Recycling Machine for Sale
Recycled wood is the most environmentally friendly form of composite timber production in the world, where remnants of wooden structures and imported wooden pallets are abundant. Another use for recycled timber is to shred it down into wood chips to power homes or to use as mulch for plants. To help you manage your timber waste successfully, Waste Initiatives has access to a range of shredders, ...
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Iron scrap processing
In this article, we try to discuss the processing of scrap iron so that people who intend to enter the profession, become relatively familiar with it. But before that, let’s look at the concept of processing. What is meant by waste processing? As you know, both metal and non-metal wastes are stored in warehouses or sheds and operations are performed on them to be prepared for optimal ...
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BlueOak - Precious metal recovery from electronics waste - Case Study
The Challenge In the US, consumers alone dispose of some 3.2 million tonnes of e-waste annually; more than 80% of this ends up as waste, contributing >70% of all toxic metals in U.S. landfills. In a bid to tackle this wastage, BlueOak Resources. USA announced in July 2014 that they had selected Tetronics' technology for their national project to sustainably recover precious metals from ...
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The effect of mixing conditions on anaerobic digester performance
The basic principle of aerobic wastewater treatment is the conversion of some parts of organic matters to biomass and this causes production of excessive sludge in aerobic processes. This excessive sludge is withdrawn from time to time to prevent accumulation of biomass in aeration basin. In most cases, this sludge requires the stabilization before the dewatering and disposal. Different processes ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Environmental efficiency of composting versus anaerobic digestion of separately collected, organic waste
Environmental policy in the Netherlands among others aims at closing material cycles and minimising the amount of waste requiring final disposal. In this policy the highest priority is given to the prevention of waste production followed by (in descending order of preference) reuse, incineration with energy recovery and sanitary landfilling. In the implementation of this solid waste policy also ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Progress Towards Halting the Loss of Biodiversity by 2010
The continuing loss of biological diversity and its components, genes, species and ecosystems, is an issue of global concern. Research has shown that both the diversity and the identity of the various species have a fundamental influence on the magnitude and stability of the ecological processes that occur at the ecosystem level. There are significant interrelationships between the degradation of ...
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