Material recovery

Material recovery or recycling is now a widely accepted practices. Thanks to the drive and development of this industry in recent years and the great emphasis placed on this concept, recycling is the par excellence strategy for cycle closing almost everywhere.

Waste regulations and need require increasingly greater recycling rates from countries and communities, given the problems of landfill saturation and the lack of some materials hanging over the world economy. In this context, efficient recycling is needed that is capable of tackling the current sustainability challenges.

There are a variety of selection and collection at source methods and various treatment processes to recycle different materials. If the product is not suitable for its materials to be recovered, the recycling process will be greatly hindered leading to additional costs and/or materials of poorer quality.

This ideas notebook analyses the ecodesign strategies that are useful to achieve an apt product for recycling.