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In some countries, end-of-life tires (ELTs) are recycled and converted into roads, infill for sports grass, artificial turf, or children's playgrounds. In other cases, used tires are reused as second-hand tires or repaired as retread tires; and in the worst cases,...
The 5 R's: "Refuse what you do not need; reduce what you do need; reuse what you consume; recycle what you cannot refuse, reduce and reuse; or transform the rest." - Bea Johnson. Bea Johnson is the author of Zero Waste Home, a book launched in 2013 telling the story...
Recycling plastic bottles and transform them into valuable alternative products is one of the biggest challenges nowadays. According to a 2016 report by the World Economic Forum, plastics lose 95% of their material value after a single-use. Besides that, plastic...
We present REVALUO, our waste to energy system with which, through three different processes, we recover, recycle and transform up to 90% of a city's MSW. All this generating a series of products with an important economic value, zero emissions and creating hundreds...
Waste mismanagement in developing countries is becoming a leading concern. According to a report by the World Bank, global waste will increase by 70 percent from 2016 by 2050. In addition, this is meant to be especially dramatic for low-income countries as they...
According to the latest report by the World Bank, by 2050, global waste generation is expected to grow to 3.4 billion tonnes per year. This means a 70% increase compared to 2016 levels. The growth of global municipal solid waste will mainly affect the poorest...
With REVALUO we recycle used and abandoned tyres by extracting the steel and fibre from them for further sale and transforming the rubber through our Thermolysis system into fuel bunker, carbon smoke and heat. The plant is self-sufficient in energy with the synthetic...
In some countries, they are reused and turned into flooring for gymnasiums, athletics tracks, playground flooring, etc. ... although the number of tyres discarded each week is usually higher than the need and demand for the recycled rubber. Other countries import used...
Our waste to energy system includes different processes that recover (glass, metals, cardboard,...), sorting and transforming the waste so that at the end we obtain products such as syngas for electricity generation, charcoal, fuel bunker (<1% S), soil improver,...
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