Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. But, if we focus solely on packaging waste, we ignore the fact that it’s only part of the story.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

Sustainable materials expert EMR has opened a fridge recycling plant at EMR Darlaston, Walsall. The firm – “the UK’s largest fridge recycler” – says it has built the facility using the latest technology and innovative processes, including robotic separation systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

There are still major differences in the amount of waste generated across the world, and how it is disposed, a finding confirmed by a 2022 Global Waste Index compiled by waste management technology firm Sensoneo to mark Global Recycling Day (18 March). Illegal waste disposal is booming in Turkey.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s described as the first fully recyclable paper crisp packet by The British Crisp Co., Consumers can dispose of the new crisp packet in their normal kerbside recycling collection along with their other paper recyclable items. It uses an innovative polymer, Hydropol, instead of conventional plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

Recycling infrastructure in Europe relies heavily on manual sorting, which contributes to materials not being recycled. The consortium members will make use of an open innovation approach, preventing a potential technology lock-in. A consortium to assess the opportunity of using AI for packaging waste sorting.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2023

It’s time to update how we sort valuable materials (a.k.a.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . Heather Clancy. Some key moments.

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GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

The electronic waste collection conundrum. The primary reason I started covering the business of sustainability during the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t just because I was laid off from my position as editor of a technology trade publication. Heather Clancy. Thu, 07/16/2020 - 01:15. First, some stats.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Greenback Recycling Technologies , a company striving to develop circular solutions for packaging waste, has closed an approximately £8m series A financing round. The firm says it is building a globally distributed, decentralised network of advanced recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In an apparent first of its kind within the UK, a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Northumberland has been equipped with an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to recycle waste solvents into low carbon gas, which is being injected into the national gas grid. It will also produce enough energy to power an equivalent of 6,000 homes.

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U.S. Green Technology

JANUARY 6, 2022

The unfortunate answer is that electronic waste, known as e-waste, ends up in landfills when not properly disposed of. The post 10 Tips for Recycling E-Waste appeared first on U.S. Green Technology. Where do these obsolete devices go once they are deemed useless? Landfills are piling up.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

Packaging and food waste are some of the most common things in your daily life that you recycle. However, old clothes can be recycled, providing significant waste reduction and offering valuable materials to many industries. Why Recycle Your Clothes? The Recycling Process. But what happens to old clothes?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A new partnership will increase the sustainability potential of organic and food waste recycling, say the firms behind it. The partnership combines Alfa Laval’s Prodec Oil Plus decanter, said to be designed to maximise oil separation, and AD, to turn oil and fats waste into biofuel, using a process developed and patented by Bisviridi.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2022

Recycling and waste management business Levenseat has announced plans to invest £4m upgrading a new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), which it purchased for an undisclosed sum from Avondale Environmental on 10 May. The Falkirk site will also process mixed household, commercial, industrial, construction and demolition waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

A new method helps recover gold from E-waste at a higher rate than it can be extracted from fresh ore (image credit: Reiko Matsushita, Shinta Watanabe). A big problem with the disposal of nuclear and electronic wastes is that the process wastes precious metals such as gold and platinum-group metals, which are key metals in computer chips.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

A waste weighing programme being launched next month in North Lanarkshire will be the first in Scotland to use using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. It will also enable better staff and resource planning and identify other potential financial savings within the council’s Waste Solutions department.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Nuclear energy has long been a topic of debate due to concerns about its environmental impact and the disposal of nuclear waste. However, a paradigm shift is underway that could […] The post The Possibilities of Recycling Nuclear Fissile Waste appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 7, 2022

A conversation about next-generation recycling technology, progress since China banned most imports of plastic and paper, and demand driving the industry forward.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Waste sorting at a recycling plant in Sterlitamak, Russia, in 2019. Intelligent waste management start-up Recycleye has secured £1.2 CEO and co-founder Victor Dewulf, resigned as a banker at Goldman Sachs in 2019 and says he is on a mission to remove the dull, dirty, and dangerous manual jobs plaguing the recycling industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Sorted plastic waste ready for shipping and recycling. The Recycling Association has slammed as “nonsense” comments made by the head of the Environment Agency which seemed to question the legitimacy of exports of recyclate. We’ve got to stop treating them as a waste, but recognise they are a commodity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been awarded to three firms for an ambitious chemical recycling project that aims to make hard-to-recycle plastic packaging recyclable.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Textiles account for 10% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, while 85% of textile waste is simply sent to landfill or incinerated. Therefore, providing an attractive technology to recycle textile waste and save building energy simultaneously holds high promise for carbon reduction.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Biomedical waste is a term used to describe waste that is generated from healthcare facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. This type of waste can be hazardous to human health and the environment if not managed properly. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 7, 2022

A conversation about next-generation recycling technology, progress since China banned most imports of plastic and paper, and demand driving the industry forward.

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Charged

APRIL 5, 2024

Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? According to new research from technology intelligence firm ABI Research, companies are planning to build enough EV battery recycling capacity by 2030 to recycle 1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

T he economics of plastic waste recycling are rapidly changing, pointing to a future where both incumbent and advanced technologies will be used, but decisive advantages for certain technologies will emerge in particular regions depending on waste streams and legislation, according to a recent Lux Research report.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2022

By now, we all know the scale of the problem: Up to 13 million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean every year; this is equivalent to dumping one garbage truck full of plastic waste into the ocean every minute; without intervention, we’ll have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. What will it take to address the plastic waste crisis?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Expanded capabilities will improve traditional clinical waste hierarchy positions and can lower the carbon emissions by around 70% compared to existing services Veolia says it has expanded its medical waste management capabilities with the aim of addressing key issues for the healthcare sector and the NHS.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Advanced Recycling: What, When and How to Scale? . What is the state of the advanced recycling industry, and what will it take to get it to scale? There’s been a noticeable uptick lately in buzz around advanced recycling (also known as chemical recycling) and the promise of technologies that can fix the broken recycling system.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

Joseph Doherty is Managing Director of waste management firm Re-Gen Waste. The way that waste in Northern Ireland will be handled over the next few years will change dramatically following consultations by Defra and the UK’s devolved administrations, according to Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

The anticipated role of this and other technologies is explored in ‘Changing mindsets on aggregate reuse and recycling in the built environment’, a new report from building materials firm Tarmac. The introduction of a mandatory digital waste tracking system in the UK is imminent. To download the report, visit [link] .

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

licence ) At a meeting on 17 January, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Waste and Recycling Committee approved an option to commission the building in the North West of two dry 1 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants – the very first plants ever built in England – as part of its Biowaste Management Strategy. “Dry

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Backed by Innovate UK, the blockchain innovation aims to provide fully traceable and accurately-labelled record of recycled material. Sustainable supply chain software firm Circulor has unveiled its latest blockchain-enabled innovation, which is aimed at improving the traceability of hard-to-recycle-plastics, it announced this week.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Electric vehicles, wind turbine generators and other technologies require these materials. New disruptive technology is placing a focus on the recycling of rare earth magnets, a practice that is expected to play an important role in clean energy technologies that often rely on these materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

To help meet this challenge, a small start-up business in Finland, Sensmet, has developed an online monitoring technology that it says promises a step-change improvement in both the manufacturing and recycling of battery metals. Continuous multi-metal monitoring technology.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Using waste carbon feedstocks to produce chemicals. Using CCU technologies to consume waste feedstocks reportedly can cut production costs; monetize industrial emissions; allow companies to meet CO2 emissions goals; and foster continued development of a circular economy. Elizabeth R. Wed, 05/27/2020 - 14:36.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In what appears to be a major stride towards sustainable industrial fermentation, a team of researchers has made advancements in the purification of isopropanol and acetone from the fermentation of waste gases. A team at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands has published the study.

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