IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 05/2022 Fit for the future

Planned glass deposit system drives development in Hungary

Up until 2016 RE-GLASS Kft., with head office in Orosháza and other yards located in Budapest and Mezőörs, processed 7000 – 8000 t of flat glass per year, while bottle glass – because of the lack of...

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Issue 02/2021

Plans

PlansDear Readers,The first quarter of 2021 is now already over. RecyclingAKTIV is planned for September and we hope that we will be able to meet one or the other recovery reader there. At the moment,...

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Issue 03/2022 Smart connected

Plant management, maintenance planning and condition monitoring

More than 460 material fractions are collected at REMONDIS Region Rheinland, processed or disposed of in cases where recycling is not possible. At the same time, REMONDIS is also active in the supply...

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Issue 01/2024 1000 t of plastic from rivers

Plastic Fischer wins the Next Economy Award of the German Sustainability Award

Plastic Fischer went home as the proud winner of the Next Economy Award at the 16th German Sustainability Award. The young company was able to prevail over more than 150 applicants and impress the...

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Issue 05/2024 Enormous potential

Plastic recycling with optical sorting 

The potential of increasing the sorting of plastic waste is enormous with a yearly production of about 400 million tons of plastic waste worldwide and only 10 % of the plastic waste being recycled....

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Issue 02/2025 Support the circular economy

Plastic recycling with UNTHA

The composition of materials is becoming more and more diverse. There is not just one type of plastic, instead, different plastics or plastic-metal composites are usually used. In order to recycle...

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Issue 05/2021 Highly targeted

Plastic sorting boosts recycling volumes and purity

Based in Corsico in the Lombardy Region of Italy, Masotina S.p.A. operates one of Europe’s largest materials recovery facilities (MRFs) for the separation and recovery of plastic from municipal waste....

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Issue 03/2018 Global problem

Plastic waste in the oceans – consequences and strategy solutions

What had long been considered a trivial offense has meanwhile become a very serious problem: Allowing plastic waste to enter the oceans. The following overview provides data and facts and informs...

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Issue 01/2019 Wind Sifting Cuts Volume Losses

Plastic-free with Airflex 1500 made by Doppstadt

Plastic is everywhere, and sadly, it often ends up in many green waste bins as well. This causes composting site operators a lot of problems.

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Issue 04/2025 K 2025

Plastics and circularity – caught between necessity and potential

K 2025 from 8 to 15 October in Düsseldorf has set itself the goal of addressing the central issues of our times. One of its three Hot Topics reads “Shaping the Circular Economy”. Reason enough to shed...

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