Recycling

By Christopher Morgan, Global Sales Director, Filtrona Tapes
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• The Spanish startup develops and commercializes its REACT™ recycling system thanks to funding from Veos Ventures, S.L.

• In Spain, more than 5 million coffee capsules are used every day, but only 10% are recycled.

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Eyewear brand MYKITA, and material technology steel maker Alleima, have joined forces in a new collaboration. The left-over steel scrap from the production of eyewear frames is now returned to Alleima to be recycled steel to be sold back to MYKITA. A win-win collaboration and an important sustainability partnership for the future.

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First production of cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipes based on feedstock from chemically recycled PEX waste

Project demonstrates chemical recycling can process hard-to-recycle waste plastic into high-quality polymer products
Partners to evaluate further cooperation to expand waste material pool as well as recycled volumes

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Neste hat seine zweite Testreihe zur Verarbeitung von verflüssigtem Kunststoffabfall im industriellen Maßstab in der Raffinerie in Porvoo abgeschlossen

Insgesamt hat Neste bis heute fast 3.000 Tonnen verflüssigten Kunststoffabfall verarbeitet

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Living in the (big) city and enjoying green, nature-oriented surroundings do not have to be mutually exclusive, as the Munich-based start-up Greenling demonstrates. Founder and CEO Johanna Leisch, co-managing director Megan Douglas, and their team are pursuing the goal of giving city dwellers little moments of nature every day with their mini-garden that fits perfectly on the balcony or terrace.

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Climate Activist, Entrepreneur and Innovator Gibson Kawago discusses his sustainable solution to Tanzania’s unreliable electricity supply.

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• Integrated: Turnkey system processes recyclate

• Digital: arburgXworld, ALS and ARS on stage
• Hot: Freeformer 300-3X with high-temperature application

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trinamiX GmbH, a leading provider of mobile spectroscopy, with support from the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a global non-profit organization, launched an initiative to supply waste management projects with 50 starter kits to identify different plastic types on the spot. Each kit contains trinamiX’s Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution, a smartphone, data analysis in the trinamiX spectroscopy cloud, real-time access to results via mobile app and the documentation of results in the customer portal. The usage is free for one year.

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trinamiX introduces handheld solution for convenient identification of more than 15 textile types and compositions

Additional application for carpet material identification
First public live demonstrations at the Greener Manufacturing Show in Cologne and Plastics Recycling World Expo 2022 in Cleveland, USA (both from 09.-10.11.2022)

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