URBANREC: recovering urban bulky waste to create high added-value recycled products

The URBANREC project: new approaches for recovery of urban bulky waste to create high added-value recycled products

The URBANREC project
Author
Anabel Crespo, Head of the AIMPLAS Composites Department
Publication Date
April, 2020
Country
Spain
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Anabel Crespo

Despite continuous advances in municipal waste management, there are still several waste streams that offer limited opportunities for material recovery and thus end up in landfills and incineration plants.

One challenging stream is the “bulky waste”, defined by the URBANREC project as “(mixed) waste from households and similar waste from companies that does not fit (because of its size, shape or weight) in the regular receptacles used for household waste collection".

In this context, the URBANREC project aims to develop and implement a comprehensive eco-innovative bulky waste management system (to enhance prevention and reuse, improve logistics and develop new waste treatment methods to obtain high added-value recycled products) and show its effectiveness in different regions.