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Issue 06/2024 Gentle coarse shredding

Two-Shaft Ripper carefully shreds valuable e-waste and cooling devices

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams. By 2030, a global output of around 75 million t is being estimated [1]. However, this is not just waste: old devices contain vast quantities of...

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Issue 06/2024 Process optimisation

New shredder system at TU Freiberg enables digital processes for battery recycling

A research team at TU Bergakademie Freiberg is using a new shredder system to investigate how battery cells can be shredded in such a way that as many of the raw materials they contain can be...

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Issue 06/2024 Win-win situation

Sorting plant for lightweight packaging officially in operation in Upper Austria

After a construction phase of less than a year and a successful trial run lasting several months, the time has come: TriPlast, one of Europe‘s most modern and Austria‘s largest sorting plants for...

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Issue 06/2024 Runs in normal operation

URT Umwelt- und Recyclingtechnik GmbH: Seventh industrial lithium-ion battery recycling plant commissioned

The German recycling plant manufacturer URT Umwelt- und Recyclingtechnik GmbH commissioned its seventh industrial plant for lithium-ion battery recycling in August 2024. The company has supplied a...

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Issue 06/2024

Sustainability: more than environmental and climate protection

Dear readers, The topic of sustainability – including issues such as energy consumption, reduced amounts of waste productions or the recycling of materials - is not only a key issue all over the...

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Issue 06/2024 Circular Plastic

The innovative sorting plant designed by STADLER closes the plastic circular economy loop

Iren SpA and STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH have invited the international press and selected customers to visit the new Circular Plastic sorting plant. Designed and built by STADLER, it is the largest...

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Issue 06/2024 Deep learning technology

Optimising the purification process of rPET production

Nord Pal Plast (NPP), a France-based subsidiary of the European group Dentis that specializes in producing recycled PET flakes derived from post-consumer plastic bottles, was the first to test TOMRA’s...

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Issue 06/2024

Issue 06/2024

Denmark inaugurates first robotic sorting plant for construction waste

Solum, one of the leading Danish companies in recycling, has inaugurated the first robotic facility dedicated to the sorting of construction waste in Denmark. The new plant, located in Roskilde,...

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