Technology

TrueCircle AI now enables 24/7 real time composition analysis by weight for PET and HDPE recyclers.

Mondi has carried out a series of tests to prove its mono-material polypropylene (PP) pouches and rollstock material can be sorted into their appropriate recycling streams.

BASF wants to build a commercial scale battery recycling black mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany.

Andritz has successfully started up a new Aduro P-3000F shredder at Energie AG Südtirol Umwelt Service S.r.l., Italy.

The circular economy value chain enables the recycling of label release liner waste, ensures the supply of PET raw material to a Finland based chemical company Inosence Polyol Oy.

The new Stadler PX acceleration conveyor integrates the best features of the BB and DB conveyors for optical sensor sorting and takes purity to new heights.

Metal recycler has plated high purity cobalt and produced manganese dioxide from lithium-ion battery black mass.

Perstorp is converting polyols produced at their largest production plant in Perstorp (Sweden) to so-called Pro-Environment products. By doing this, the company aims to enable reduced greenhouse gas emissions for its polyol customers and downstream value chains.

The greywater and sewage generated on cargo ships can be legally discharged into the Baltic Sea. Gasum aims to determine the volume of wastewater ending up in the Baltic Sea and to study the potential to use it in biogas production.

Aimplas emphasizes the importance of continuing to remove plastics from the sea on World Oceans Day. The Plastics Technology Centre is working on several projects to recover plastic waste and end-of-life fishing nets and recycle them to manufacture new products, like textiles or furniture.

The amount of plastic waste produced globally is on track to almost triple by 2060, with around half ending up in landfill and less than a fifth recycled, according to a new OECD report.