Recycling is a long-term solution aimed at reducing plastic waste. Meaningful ways of recycling used material will be on display at the K 2019, which is due to be held from 16 to 23 October in...
Over the last decades, resources have been exploited recklessly to satisfy civilization’s infinite demand for resources and virgin products, leading to resources becoming rare and under unprecedented...
The global debate over packaging waste, the associated use of resources and increasing pressure for regulation have further reinforced the beverages industry‘s demand for alternative and new packaging...
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...
Cooperation between Dutch company Goudsmit Magnetics of Waalre and German company Sortatec has resulted in a mobile metal separator that separates both ferrous and non-ferrous metals from bulk flows....
Between 5 and 7 September 2019, more than 200 exhibitors will be presenting their latest products at the RecyclingAKTIV and TiefbauLIVE trade fair pairing at Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre. These...
Increasingly stringent requirements made on building insulation systems and the associated rehabilitation and/or demolition projects (Fig. 1) will in the coming few decades result in significant...
Divers of the mission “German Baltic 2019“, which started on 10 June, brought a trawl net of more than 30 m length from the bottom of the Baltic Sea on 11 June 2019. Overall, more than half a ton of...
The production of electroplated plastic components makes extremely high demands on the material‘s surfaces. Up to 30 % of production is out-of-specification. Up to now, there has been no process for...
BHS-Sonthofen has developed a new procedure for processing meatballs in order to increase the amount of copper recovered. Electric motors and motor armatures represent a small fraction of waste from...
