Residents near Adelaide cement plant raise concerns about more plastic being burnt for fuel

Residents living near a large cement plant in Adelaide are concerned about the owner wanting to burn more plastic as fuel to ...
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This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify mixed plastic trash as “hazardous waste.” This designation essentially ...
Recycling Today

Pellenc debuts QC+ for refuse-derived fuel applications

Pellenc ST, Pertuis, France, has released the QC+, which it says is a quality control machine dedicated to the refuse-derived fuel (RDF) industry. According to Pellenc, RDF serves as an efficient ...
Recycling Today

UNTHA shredder works at Mexican RDF plant

A shredder supplied by Austria-based UNTHA GmbH is helping prepare refuse-derived fuel (RDF) for a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. The facility began to take shape two years ...