IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

FOR A ZERO WASTE FUTURE

Geocycle Mexico Declares War on Landfills with Lindner’s Polaris 2200

Mexico’s mountains of waste may soon be history. To achieve this ambitious goal in a country that produces around 100 000 t of waste a day, the affiliate of the cement giant Lafarge Holcim is relying...

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Issue 02/2019 Top achievements

German Sustainability Award 2019

The German Sustainability Award was presented in front of 1200 guests in Düsseldorf on 7 December 2018.

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Issue 01/2024 Pioneers of transformation

Germany‘s most sustainable companies honored

As part of the 16th German Sustainability Award, the „Pioneers of Transformation“ in 100 sectors were honored for the first time in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the DIHK...

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Germany’s households are guilty of producing THIS much e-waste

Christmas is right around the corner and Germans across the country have already begun shopping for their loved ones. One of the most popular Christmas ‘gifts’ will be electronic products, but as...

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Issue 04/2018 Practice-tested

GKD filter media for microplastics or phosphorus recovery

“We are moving in the right direction,” comments Peter Wirtz, Head of Industrial Mesh at GKD – Gebr. Kufferath AG (GKD), referring to the solutions presented at the IFAT fair in Munich by the family...

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GKD wins AFS New Product Award

With a revolutionary unit for microplastic separation, another product of the GKD Group has been honored with the AFS New Product Award. After the VOLUMETRIC and POROMETRIC mesh, the VORTEX separation...

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Issue 05/2018 Potential

Glass recycling – Current market trends

Depending on the degree of purity achieved in the processing of cullets from waste glass recycling, glass can be melted as often as desired and converted into new products. As is the case with many...

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4|2017

Glass – production, application and recycling

Glass has been an important resource for many thousands of years, but today its uses have never been so varied and important to our everyday lives. Whether it is used as a drinking vessel, a window on...

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Global Earth Day 2022 – We don’t have time

We Don't Have Time is, together with our partners, proud to announce the fifth Exponential Climate Action Summit, exploring the role of nature in the race to zero. We need to reach net-zero greenhouse...

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Global issues call for global solutions: the WEEE Forum expands with five new members

The WEEE Forum continues to make a real impact as an international association that brings together Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) from across the world. It is the only organisation of...

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