Resource Recycling Magazine: Wide world of recycling

Wide world of recycling

By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling

August 4, 2015

Here’s a look at some of the latest recycling industry developments around the globe, courtesy of our content partner, Recycling International.

Polish manufacturer Seco/Warwick Group will supply a comprehensive range of melt shop equipment to EcoTitanium, Europe’s first recycling plant for aviation grade titanium. The new venture's qualification cycle will begin in 2017, with industrial production scheduled to launch in 2018.

Green Distillation Technologies in the Australian city of Melbourne has announced the construction of a $6.2 million (U.S. dollars) tire recycling plant on the nearby island of Tasmania. The site at Longford will treat an estimated 658,000 car and truck tires every year once operations begin next summer.

Utilization of paper for recycling was broadly unchanged last year across the 18 member countries of the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) whereas collections dropped 0.4 percent from 2013 levels. The overall recycling rate, meanwhile, slipped from 72.0 percent in 2013 to 71.7 percent in 2014.

The steel, rubber and textile from tires can be used in concrete to make buildings "earthquake-proof," a new EU-funded project has revealed. Recycled rubber from tires can help buildings and other structures flex up to 10 percent along their length, according to experts at the University of Sheffield and Imperial College London.

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