Plastics recycling technology roundup: Nov. 2, 2016
A facility near London is using a new baffled oscillation technology to separate PP and PE in a water tank,...
Sortation
A victory for glass recycling in Colorado
A Denver-based recycling and waste collection company is now sending broken glass from its materials recovery facility to a specialized...
MRF of the Moment: Ballistic separator part of facility retrofit in Nebraska
An upgrade at a Midwest MRF has dramatically boosted its throughput while allowing it to better separate materials. The changes...
Court approves sale of closed reclaimer Entropex
The assets of shuttered plastics reclaimer Entropex will be purchased by the founders of Emterra Group and Merlin Plastics Group....
APR starts sweating the small stuff
The Association of Plastic Recyclers will research ways in which materials recovery facilities might be able to recover more smaller...
First steps for secondary processors
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Stakeholders turn attention to recovery of flexible film
Existing sortation equipment at materials recovery facilities could potentially be used to create bales of flexible film packaging, a study...
Project offers insights into sortation of flexible packaging
By tweaking existing equipment, materials recovery facilities could reduce the amount of flexible film packaging landing in their fiber bales,...
Q&A: ‘Trashbot’ could be the future of public-space collection
A startup is using robotics, artificial intelligence and the cloud to combat recycling contamination at one of its sources: public...
Getting technical
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