“Finally, our long-term plan also includes a new and ambitious recycling plan,” says Bloomberg. “Soon, the city will enter into a 20-year contract with a private company that will invest in a modern recycling plant in Sunset Park, which will create 100 new jobs on the Brooklyn waterfro...
I remember the first time I visited a recycling plant; the mountains of glass bottles destined for a new life made a lasting impression on me. The process of making new glass requires sand, soda ash, limestone, and various additives for color and special treatments. Extracting and processing ...
"Plant-based food scraps, any kinds of plant matter and some paper products can be composted..." "You can get rid of a significant chunk of your waste by not using or buying disposable products." "The next step is to try to get the producers of materials that you do use to be made...
The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out.The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city.This ...
Finnish waste management company Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy (LSJH) will supply raw material to Infinited Fibre Company's flagship plant from the full-scale textile waste refinement plant that is being prepared in the Turku region of Finland. LSJH's plant will process all the end-of-life...
Another subsurface flow wetland type is the horizontal flow system in which wastewater moves horizontally through the system substrate, plant roots, and rhizomes toward the system outlet (Vymazal2009,2014). In this system, the treatment of wastewater, which floods the below-ground aggregates, is du...
The Circular Economy model not only employs waste management but con- siders reduce, reuse, recycle, and responsible manufacturing, which could support the development of new industries and jobs, reducing emissions and increasing the efficiency of using natural resources [62]. The Circular Economy ...