Fabrizio Radice has been appointed as the new Global Sales & Marketing Director with Wedel, Germany-based TOMRA Sorting Recycling GmbH. The company says Radice “will assume the lead role to further develop and implement the short- and long-term sales and marketing go-to-market strategy of TOMRA´s Recycling business stream.” He will report to Tom Eng, senior vice president and head of TOMRA Sorting Recycling.

 

Radice has more than 20 years of sales experience and has been part of global executive teams in areas such as sales, marketing, development, and addressing the diverse challenges of change management, according to TOMRA. In his past roles, he was responsible for recruiting, building, managing and developing cross-border international departments.

 

Among the companies for which Radice has worked are Philips, Yageo, FLIR and Agilent. He graduated with a degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico University of Milan in 1996, and was awarded an executive MBA in international business studies by the same university in 2004.

 

“Fabrizio is passionate and enthusiastic about breaking new ground and seizing opportunities to build new businesses from scratch,” says Tom Eng “This is very important because, although we have made huge advances in many different markets and segments over the last two decades, there is still a lot of potential to recover many more types of recyclable materials and extend their productive contribution by returning them to the sustainable resource loop. He will enhance our strong market presence and bring a fresh perspective and considerable new energy to our customer partnerships and global recycling solutions.”

 

Says Radice, who started with TOMRA in the first quarter of 2017, “I’m so excited taking this important international challenge on, and I am proud to join the market leader in the recycling business. It is an honor to be able to drive this excellent International Sales and Marketing Team forward.”

More than 200 waste-to-energy (WtE) plants are operating in China. One of them in the city of Lianyungang in Shandong province, north of Shanghai, will be complemented by a pretreatment plant for municipal solid waste (MSW). The Austrian-German technology firm Redwave designed the process for the pretreatment plant. Tim van Heeswijk from the sales division of Redwave presented the concept and the design at Waste to Resources 2017, the Seventh International Symposium MBT, MRF & Recycling, in Hannover 16 to 18 May.

In China, household waste has a different composition than in Europe. It has a relatively high content of organics and moisture, so less energy efficiency is achieved when incinerated. Depending on regional conditions, the calorific value of MSW in China is in the range of 3 to 6.7 megajoules per kilogram, which is less than the 9 to 11 megajoules per kilogram in Europe.

China Jinjiang Environment Holding Co. Ltd. contracted with Redwave to supply, install and commission the Lianyungang MBT (mechanical biological treatment) plant. The MBT plant is designed for an annual throughput capacity of roughly 274,000 tons based and with a daily input of 750 tons. The client´s request was to increase the calorific value by drying the waste from an incoming moisture of 50% to a maximum moisture content of 30%.

Starting from a deep bunker, a fully automated delivery crane conveys the waste into the hopper of the preshedder. Via an overbelt magnet for ferrous separation, the preshredded material is fed to an intermediate bunker. A fully automated overhead gantry crane conveys the waste to one of the 18 biodrying units. When ambient or recirculated air ventilates the material in the box, it heats up by an aerobic microbiological process. The water is discharged of the drying box in the form of water vapour, and the dry material remains in the box. Because each box is individually controlled, it is possible to guarantee even and efficient drying, Redwave says. The relevant data, such as the flow rate of circulated and fresh air, heat output capacity and the temperature curves, are analysed in the process control.

Each biodrying unit has a removable lid on top and is designed as self-supporting insulated steel structure. The drying process inside the unit proceeds independently from the outside climatic conditions, the company says.

The dried waste then is processed in various steps, including screening, airstream sorting, shredding, overbelt magnets, eddy current separators (ECS) and Redwave sensor-based sorting systems and is turned into a homogenous solid recovered fuel (SRF), the system supplier says.

The biological drying and subsequent mechanical treatment increases the calorific value from 3 to 6.7 megajoules per kilogram to approximately 12 to 14 megajoules per kilogram, according to Redwave.

The MBT system in Lianyungang is under construction, with completion scheduled for the end of 2017.

April 20, 2017, new legislation was signed into law in Iowa designed to protect workers in the waste and recycling industry. HF314, the state’s version of the Slow Down to Get Around law requires motorists to slow down or move out of their way or face penalties. Iowa is one of sixteen states to enact this legislation, which is designed to protect waste and recycling workers. The Iowa Chapter of the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) took the critical steps to develop this legislation and achieve its support in the Iowa legislature.

The law goes into effect July 1, 2017, and requires motorists to slow down, safely change lanes if possible and operate with due caution around waste and recycling trucks when safety lights are flashing, similar to cautions motorists must now exercise when traveling through a construction work zone or when passing a stopped public safety vehicle. Slow Down to Get Around is a nationwide campaign by NWRA and its state chapters.

Drivers representing Waste Management, Midwest Sanitation and Phoenix Renewable Resources will share their personal experiences at 11 a.m. June 7 at the Des Moines, Iowa, Waste Management facility. They will be available for interviews following the conference.

Speakers include Rick Grochowski, Waste Management of Iowa Inc. area safety manager; Mark Lowe, director of transportation, state of Iowa; Lyle Vander Meiden, CEO Midwest Sanitation in Pella, Iowa; and Tony Colosimo, CEO, Phoenix Renewable Resources and member of the NWRA board of trustees. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has been invited to the event.

Pictured above, from left: Steve Whettingsteel, president, Krysteline Technologies; Maryse Vermette, CEO, Eco Entreprises Quebec; Pierre Pare, president and CEO, Machinex; Denis Brisebois, chair of the board, Eco Entreprises

Eco Entreprises Quebec (EEQ), Montreal, inaugurated glass processing equipment as part of the implementation of its Innovative Glass Works plan. The Quebec City, Quebec, material recovery facility (MRF), which is operated by Societe VIA, a nonprofit organization based in Levis, Quebec, is among the five centers to receive equipment to lead experimental pilot projects with the aim to find a solution for 100 percent of the glass collected through curbside recycling.

"The experimental pilot projects led as part of EEQ's Innovative Glass Works plan are an exceptional showcase for Quebec in terms of innovation and circular economy," says Maryse Vermette, president and CEO of EEQ. "The major investments by the organizations that fund curbside recycling, which we represent, will benefit all stakeholders in the recycling industry. This is a mobilizing project and we are very pleased to work in close collaboration with the government, municipalities, sorting centers and innovative businesses to develop glass recycling markets."

Combining sorting and cleaning equipment in a single glass processing system, the technology developed by U.K.-based Krysteline Technologies and the related equipment installed by Quebec-based equipment manufacturer Machinex will enable sorting centers to produce glass that meets the needs of conditioners and recyclers, which will now be able to more easily and cost-effectively reintegrate the glass into new products, such as ecomaterials. The installation of this new equipment in the Quebec City MRF has required total investments of $1.9 million, Societe VIA ($300,000) and Ville de Quebec ($80,000).

"For a large sorting center such as ours, which processes over 10,000 tons of glass per year, the benefits of this new technology are significant,” says Jean-Sébastien Daigle, president and CEO of Societe VIA. "Now that we can provide high-quality glass to conditioners and recyclers, the doors are wide open for new ecomaterials made with recycled glass.”

Announced in January 2016, the Innovative Glass Works plan aims to find a concrete solution for 100 percent of the glass collected through curbside recycling in Quebec. The plan includes investments of $6.7 million to upgrade sorting centers across the province and set up experimental pilot projects so that they may produce higher quality glass, as well as support measures for businesses seeking to develop new ecomaterials and outlets for glass collected through curbside recycling. The Quebec City MRF; EBI Environnement Inc. in Saint-Paul, Lanaudiere; Tricentris—tri, transformation, sensibilization in Terrebonne, Lanaudiere; La regie intermunicipale de traitement des matieres residuelles de la Gaspesie in Grande-Riviere, Gaspesie; and Recuperation Frontenac in Thetford Mines, Chaudiere-Appalaches are participating in the program.

These five centers process approximately 25 percent of all the glass containers that Quebecers place in their recycling bins. With the new equipment, the centers are designed to produce glass in two sizes that will facilitate the material's transformation into a range of added-value ecomaterials: abrasives, mineral wool, cement and concrete additives, ornamental mulch, water filtration agents, fillers, green paving stone and cellular glass for use in infrastructures and sports fields.