In Brazil, Goodyear do Brasil, in partnership with the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Renewable Resources (IBAMA) has developed a research about the recovery of used-up tires. Among the methodologies adopted from the American central is the use of tires to fuel cement kilns ovens, which has had very …
Mais »Recycling glass
Nowadays, there are already many glass manufacturing industries working solely with recovered material. For each 1,000 kg of shattered glass used in the process 1,200 kg of raw material is saved; for each 10% of shattered glass burnt in ovens, 2 to 5 % of energy is saved and gaseous …
Mais »Recovery and final destination of vehicles in Germany
For the first time in Europe, the problem of recycling and giving a final destination to automotive vehicles is being discussed as a subject of federal legislation. A new law, approved this year by the German parliament fees cars abandoned in the streets, appoints car industries as responsible for the …
Mais »Recycling is not always environment protective
Recycling campaigns in some cities in the United States and in Western Europe encourage the population to take their recyclable domestic solid waste (glass, plastic, paper, cardboard paper, metal, etc.) to proper disposable units, usually large and colorful plastic containers installed in public places, to be removed to sorting centers or …
Mais »Software for recycling
Migros, a Swiss chain of supermarkets, in partnership with the Swiss Secretariat for Environmental Protection, developed a software that carries out a comparative analysis of various types of containers regarding each phase of its production, utilization and final disposition. This program quantifies and sets grades for each energy unit consumed, …
Mais »Solid waste can be transformed into solution and used for medical and nourishing purposes
São Paulo: In some years, solid waste might no longer have the same destination of the wastes produced by the food industry and agriculture. The waste, rich in proteins, might be transformed into solution for medical and nourishing purposes. This is what thinks Professor Raquel Camargo Giordano from Universidade Federal …
Mais »Plastics recycling with style
Brussels was the venue for and unusual fashion event earlier this year. To mark the launch of a packaging waste guide from the Association of cities for Recycling, a recycled plastic fashion show demonstrated the potencial these material offer to entirely new applications
Mais »Action on waste mountain
The Government of Nepal has decided to ban the sale of bottled drinks around Mount Everest, the World´s highest peak, as this stream has become a real problem in the national park. Euwid Recycling & Waste Management reports that the local environmental agency hopes a switch from bottles to can …
Mais »Carpet leasing
Interface Inc., in Atlanta, USA company which makes carpets, is pioneering carpet leasing – installing and maintaining carpets for a fee rather than selling them. This is the logical conclusion of the Producer Responsibility concept, where customers pay for the service they want (in this case a floor covering service), …
Mais »Clothes back to the manufacturer
OTL Sportfashion Vertrieb, a German manufacturer has proposed a scheme to take back used clothes within five years of purchase. Purchasers receive a voucher to be presented with the clothes and retailers return clothing to OTL having refunded the value of the voucher to the customer
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