Science & technology
Neste completes second series of runs at Porvoo refinery
| Neste has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
Cemex and Regenera Mexico rely on Lindner shredders for RDF production
| In Mexico, waste, including industrial waste, is still frequently disposed of in landfill sites.
Novelis drives decarbonisation in Switzerland
| Novelis and its partners at the research and development laboratory Net Zero Lab Valais, successfully completed the first year of operations, launching key energy projects aimed at enabling scope 1 and 2 carbon-neutral production at Novelis´ Sierre plant in Switzerland.
New Cat 926, 930 and 938 wheel loaders
| The next generation of Cat 926, 930 and 938 Wheel Loaders offer a range of new technologies and features designed to boost productivity by simplifying machine operation.
Recycling wind farms with state-of-the-art technology
| The EoLO-HUBs solution will use and green chemistry processes to recycle composite materials and optimize, through advanced software, the dismantling of wind farms.
Major research project to give electric vehicle batteries a ‘second life’
| Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is part of a £4.5 million research project to establish a process to recycle or reuse electric vehicle batteries to help prevent up to nine million tons of battery waste per year going to landfill.
Tomra opens second test facility in Germany
| Tomra Recycling Sorting opened a second test facility at its headquarters in Germany to meet growing demand for material trials.
Optimise raw material reuse and recovery in electronic products
| A consortium has commenced an ambitious four-year project to create a data platform that will share detailed information on these products.
European textile reuse & recycling industry urges caution on EU interpretation of used textiles...
| The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published a briefing on EU trends on exports of used textiles.
Europe’s used textiles an increasing waste and export problem
| Discarded textiles in Europe, including used clothing and footwear, are an increasing waste and export problem.
Plastic upcycling to close the carbon cycle
| A new PNNL-developed process produces fuel quickly at mild temperature, with few by-products.
REMEDIES project wants to collect 400 tons of microplastics
| The REMEDIES project, funded by the European Union with almost eight million euros, seeks to create a new sustainable model to curb the impact of microplastics in 8 Mediterranean areas, through the design of advanced systems to monitor, collect, recycle and transform the extracted waste into new products.
New method for converting marine plastic waste into aquaculture products
| The ÑCostas Project will make it possible to reuse plastic material recovered from the sea and waste from the aquaculture industry to make walkways and platforms for fish farms, port protection products, flotation tubes, and nets and mesh for reinforcement, among other products.
Scaling up good practices can boost sustainability of plastics
| Plastics have many useful applications, but the global production and consumption trends of these materials are currently unsustainable.
