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Burkasan has chosen TOMRA’s sorting technology to recycle HDPE bottles in its new plant

Burkasan uses TOMRA Recycling’s sorting machines in its new plastic recycling plant. The plant equipped with TOMRA’s AUTOSORT® and AUTOSORT® FLAKE is capable of sorting 5 tons of waste per hour, including PET, HDPE, PP, enabling them to be brought back in the loop and the economy for further usage.

Automation Triples Processing Capacity

Premier Surplus automates E-waste processing with TOMRA AUTOSORT® FINES to take efficiencies to the next level

TOMRA Care: technology and customized technical service, an unbeatable offer

The ever-expanding recycling sector is becoming increasingly demanding. TOMRA Sorting Recycling is aware of this situation and responds to it with cutting-edge technologies. However, even the most sophistacted technologies can’t go without excellent serivce. It is necessary to offer an integrated and 360° solution that covers all phases of the business: from pre-sale to installation to after-sale.

TOMRA Sorting Recycling and STADLER UK Limited chosen as technology providers for Viridor’s £15.4m Masons MRF transformation

In 2019, STADLER UK Limited was appointed by Viridor as one of two main contract partners for the £15.4m upgrade of its Masons Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) near Ipswich, modernising the facility as part of a ten-year Viridor-Suffolk County Council contract renewal. Viridor runs the MRF on behalf of the Suffolk Waste Partnership.

TOMRA to Present Sorting Advancements at Upcoming Americas Thermoform Recycling & Food Contact Recycled Packaging Event

Carlos Manchado Atienza to cover the latest technologies, making it possible to create a cleaner PET thermoformed product for tray-to-tray recycling

The bottle-to-bottle way I go

I'm a little teapot, short and stout – well, actually, I am a PET bottle, not a teapot at all. I was used for iced tea, however. Now that my owner finished with me, how will my life go on? Will they just leave me on the picknick table in the park? Toss me into the bin after a run? Let me float on the duck pond until I inevitably end up on the other side of the shore where I will be swallowed by weeds, never decaying? Or will they take me to the store and recycle me, so that I may end up with you?

TOMRA Sorting Recycling’s latest plastic flake sorting solutions deliver unparalleled recovery and purity results in polyolefins recycling

Thanks to the latest applications of TOMRA Sorting Recycling’s sensor-based flake sorting solutions, customers are now able to achieve unparalleled recovery and purity rates of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), both of which are polyolefins (PO). Until now, the company’s flake sorting solutions mainly focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
 

Integrated flake sorting solutions paving the way to increased quality

We all know the issues when it comes to plastic waste. Now more than ever, emphasis is being placed on handling this resource in a responsible, sustainable manner to make sure it can be reused. Plus, with new regulations being introduced around the recycled content within plastic bottles in particular, a new approach to recycling is imperative.
 

CIRCULAR VISIONS, SMALL FLAKES AND BIG DATA – TOMRA AT K-SHOW 2019

TOMRA Sorting Recycling will be at the K-Show 2019, presenting its frontrunning position in the circular economy, including sorting equipment like the recently introduced INNOSORT FLAKE and a groundbreaking innovation in the fields of Artificial Intelligence.

Can the global plastic waste export market be revived?

With the introduction of plastic import bans across South East Asia, the global export market has slowed hugely over the last 12 months.