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THE ROLE OF SORTING AND RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY Oliver Lambertz Gteborg October 2018 DID YOU KNOW? By 2025 solid waste generation will increase by 70% compared to 2010 levels 32% of all plastic packaging made
Oliver Lambertz Göteborg October 2018
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increase by 70% compared to
2010 levels
ends up in nature every year
profitably re-used and 50%
could be profitably recycled if designed for after use systems
will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050
Sources: Wrap, Ellen McArthur Foundation, World Bank
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Potatoes, vegetables, nuts, fruit, dried fruit, seeds, grains, meat, gummies, seafood, tobacco
FOOD
Packaging, municipal solid waste, thermoplastics, paper, commercial & industrial waste, e-scrap, aluminum
RECYCLING
Industrial minerals, gems, precious metals, ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, fuels
MINING
TOMRA SORTING
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High-tech sensors to identify objects Precise ejection by air jets or mechanical fingers Feeding of unsorted material High-speed processing of information (material, shape, size, color, defect, damage and location of objects)
SORTING PRINCIPLE
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For the first time we see a Push and Pull in Recycling market
CONSUMER AWARENESS LEGISLATION PUSH MARKET PULL Demand for recycled materials
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Circular Economy is the name of the game
MUCH MORE RECYCLING WILL BE NEEDED SORTING AND RECYCLING FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES CONTENT WILL CHANGE E.G SIMPLER PACKAGING DESINGNED FOR RE-USE AND RECYCLING NEW PLAYERS WILL EMERGE E.G. VIRGIN PLASTIC PRODUCERS PART OF RECYCLING SINCE THIS IS „NEW“, THOUGHT LEADERS ARE WELCOME!
Regulators take action: EU has high ambitions to transform the challenge into an opportunity for the EU economy
BY 2030, A COMMON EU TARGET FOR RECYCLING:
CHINA IMPORT BAN ON WASTE
+ new way to measure + more investments
Global CPG brands step up with ambitious targets about the use of resources for their products and packaging
EXAMPLE: PRESENTED DURING
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We are only touching a small fraction of waste today
GLOBAL FLOWS OF PLASTIC PACKAGING MATERIAL IN 2013
Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation
CURRENTLY ADDRESSED BY TOMRA POTENTIAL TO BE ADDRESSED BY TOMRA
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30% 19% 10% 7% 8% 7% 19%
PE (HD, LD, MD, LLD) PP PVC PS PUR PET Other
3 4 6 10 17 20 40 Agriculture Households, Leisure & Sports Electronics Automotive Others Building and Construction Consumer Packaged Goods
Plastic use by type of material in % Plastic use by industry in %
Source: PlasticsEurope Market Research Group (PEMRG) and Conversio Market & Strategy GmbH 2017
Todays high-quality plastics recycling is focused around PET bottles, which is only a small fraction of the total plastics market
GOALS
plastic through a process
quality in order to replace virgin material
waste streams (incl. landfill and incineration) to satisfy demand
working with multiple partners on commercialization
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Reverse vending Sorting Sorting Washing Extrusion
WASTE SORTING PLANTS INCINERATION LANDFILL
WASTE NEW PRODUCT
Consumer Retail/e-commerce Consumer goods Collection
Packaging/converter Reprocessing Virgin plastics Data
NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA
Integra
Recycling: industrializing the process for recycled plastic
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Post Consumer Plastics – Todays recycling
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Upgrade post-consumer PO´s to a high quality enabling to replace virgin material with 100% recycled material at competitive price
The target is…
PE/PP from waste sorting plants Pre- sorting washing Flake sorting Extrusion
deodorization
production 100% Yield 92% Yield 70% Yield 65% Yield 64,9% waste The future of plastic is high quality recycling
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ECODESIGN
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PET BOTTLE WITH PVC LABEL PVC is contamination for PET product. E.g. PP label would help. 4 different materials combined In sorting plants such product will most probably end up splitted into two fractions. One material should have a big majority of the entire product. BLACK MATERIAL, Carbon black is generally not detectable with standard sorting units. Black without carbon is detectable. MULTILAYER MATERIALS: depending on the top layer material and thickness, standard sorting technology is not able to distinguish from mono-layer material. Multilayer from one material type would be good. FULL-SLEEVED PET BOTTLE: depending on the material and thickness
material is not
sorting is not possible.
Sorting
Actual situation and design of products
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ALUMINUM BODY WITH PET BOTTOM: Leads to material losses either in PET recycling or aluminium recycling COMBINED MATERIAL Most of the product will end up in residual stream and/or has a negative influence on final product PAPER – PLASTIC COMBINATION: In paper mill, all plastic ends in residual stream. In plastic recycling plant results in very low efficiency and high cost because all paper ends in residual stream. COMBINED MATERIALS: Combined material always has negative influence on efficiency and sometimes as well on product quality after
are not sorted out anyhow.
Recycling
Actual situation and design of products
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Workshops – Ecodesign / Sorting and recycling technologies
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PP bottle PE label PP bottle PP label
Workshops – Ecodesign / Sorting and recycling technologies
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25 – 30 kg/(cap * a) 5-6 kg/(cap * a) 20-25 kg/(cap * a)
Plastics collection in Norway / Sweden
Romerike, Norway Commissioning in Jan 2014 MRF for MSW (40 t/h) 16 NIR systems included Recovery of recyclables from MSW
Innovations:
MSW
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~ 12 kg/ (cap * a)
IN OPERATION-ROAF MSW sorting plant
PLASTKRETSEN, Motala, Sweden Start of operation end of 2018 Sorting plant for plastic packaging from separate collection and MSW Capacity of 120.000 t/a plastics 22 NIR
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IN CONSTRUCTION – PLASTKRETSEN PLASTIC SORTING PLANT, MOTALA
Stavanger, Norway Start-up end of 2018 Pre-sorting before incineration Capacity 40 t/h Fully automated plant for MSW + separately collected paper with 22 NIR for
Hot washing + extrusion line for film and hard plastics
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IN CONSTRUCTION – IVAR MSW Sorting + plastic washing plant
Stockholm , Sweden Tender awarded Q3 2018 Pre-sorting before incineration Capacity 45 t/h / 40 t/h Fully automated plants for MSW
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MAYBE NEXT? – FORTUM BRISTA AND SVOA MSW Sorting
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Closing remarks
Closing remarks
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