you should see the crap people put in their light fraction bin in Germany
its a mess
the system is not that high tech, and they still end up with a grey plastic
mass at the end.
Its not a total solution, and it doesnt make sense in the US
Cheers
Michele Raymond
At 06:00 AM 7/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 06:15:12 EDT
>From: Jango@aol.com
>To: editor1@jgpress.com, greenyes@earthsystems.org
>Subject: [GRRN] No-hands Plastic Sorting
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>Chemical Engineering: No-hands Recycling
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> NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1999--What is thought to be the
>world's first fully automated plant for sorting plastic recyclables is being
>built in Hannover, Germany, Chemical Engineering reports. Expected to be up
>and running next May, the 25,000 m.t./yr plant will have no manual sorting
>steps -- cutting sorting costs in half. Contaminants, such as paper and
>metals, are removed through different cleaning mechanisms using air blowers
>and magnets. The process was developed jointly by HTP-Ingenieurgesellschaft
>fur Aufbereitungstechnik and the Institute for Preparation Technology of
RWTH
>(Aachen, Germany).
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>Thought some of you would be interested.
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>David Biddle
>Philadelphia, PA
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