International E-Learning Platform for Waste and Resource Management was launched at the end of year 2017.

The rising success of the plastics recycling sector has turned an environmental hazard – plastic waste – into a valuable resource. The constantly growing industry comes with increasing demands in terms of technology and quality, but also offers enormous potential for those who are ready to strike new paths. ANDRITZ has combined the latest shredder technology from its recently launched ADuro product line with an all-in-one solution for separating, washing and dewatering – the CENSOR ACZ decanter centrifuge. This powerful pair is perfect for processing various types of plastic waste, especially from household waste collection.

The project “Tex2Mat” was a cooperation between companies working in the field of recycling or textiles and universities specializing in the field of polymer engineering and recycling. There were two polymers (PET and PA) examined and the whole project divided into two subprojects.

Report outlines major global efforts, investments and commitments to end plastic waste in the environment and contributing to a circular economy.

The world's first automated textile sorting system on an industrial scale is being built by the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute together with 20 partners. The system, in which various types of textile can be identified with optical sensors, is due to go into operation in summer 2020 next to an existing recycling center in Malmö in southern Sweden.

The intensive use of plastic material in every aspect of life has generated a plastic waste stream and the so-called “plastic pollution crisis.” The shrinking landfill capacity and the dispersion of plastic debris in the environment further increase this crisis [1,2]. In 2018, global plastics manufacture reached almost 360 million tons with plastics production in Europe at 62 million tons. Key industries such as tourism and aquaculture fisheries are heavily influenced by plastic pollution. Ideas including circular economy, material reuse, recycling alternatives, incentives to industry for biodegradable package design, orientation of industry, policy and consumer patterns are behaviors towards the protection of the environment and the need to describe local or national policy. This paper aims to provide information on plastic waste stream in coastal zones of Amvrakikos Gulf and Lefkada, Greece, mainly focusing on the socioeconomic context and wetland values and the connection of management scenarios with resource efficiency.

As a completion of the intensive cooperation of the export initiative Environmental Technologies "Sustainable Waste and Recycling Management in Croatia", a high-ranking 30-member delegation from Croatia visited Bavaria.

“It’s like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.” Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Company’s investment will divert 1 million tons of recyclable material from landfill into the recycling stream eliminating the equivalent of 2 million metric tons of CO2 by 2028. Amazon’s support will provide 3 million households across the U.S. with curbside recycling.

Solid waste management has emerged as a big challenge for the Mediterranean country of Tunisia. The country, having an estimated population of around 11 million people, produces more than 2.5 million tons of garbage each year. Tunisia is experiencing an average increase in waste volume by 3% with per capita waste generation in urban areas being 0.8 kg per day. Biodegradable organic fraction constitutes around 68% of the MSW stream.

Over the past 15 years, there have been significant advances in particle sorting systems, but development of bulk sorting systems has received less attention. The amenability of ore to bulk sorting is dependent on the heterogeneity of the deposit and the ability of sensors to estimate the properties at the bulk scale.