A whole load of untapped recycling potential

Far too many recyclable materials are being lost despite the fact that Germany has a series of different bins for households and made it obligatory for businesses to separate their waste. Just one example: large amounts of materials are ending up in the black bin that simply don’t belong there. Even though black bins should only be used for collecting non-recyclable materials, they often contain a whole range of other items – from old paper and plastic packaging, to aluminium cans and drinks bottles, all the way through to old electronic devices. All of these products should be easy to recycle. The emphasis here being on the word ‘should’. There’s normally no way back for them once they’ve been accidentally thrown away into the residual waste bin. They end up being incinerated with the other non-recyclable contents in the black bin. One solution to this problem could be to send residual and mixed waste to sorting plants rather than taking it straight to waste-to-energy plants for incineration. This is precisely what REMONDIS is doing at the state-of-the-art GWA RE facility – a collaboration
This is precisely what REMONDIS is doing at the state-of-the-art GWA RE facility – a collaboration with GWA Kreis Unna – at the Lippe Plant.