Creating value out of waste for a sustainable future
Description
TOMRA Recycling is an innovator in the field of sensor-based sorting solutions for the recycling industry, and has continued to develop and optimise its expertise since it began in 1972. TOMRA’s cutting-edge sorting technologies retain valuable resources by extracting high-purity fractions from mixed waste and metal streams in the most remote parts of the world. Its technology and equipment have been used in the world’s most advanced recycling plants.
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TOMRA Recycling’s expertise and technology have been used around the world to sort and recover various materials, including:
- PET flakes in Turkey
- paper in Ireland
- aluminium in Italy
- post-industrial and post-consumer plastics in China
Perhaps one of the most advanced, fully-automated facilities for sorting municipal solid waste can be found in Norway.