Residue recycling process begins in Belgium.A shredder residue recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. process developed by SiCon GmbH of Hilchenbach, Germany, is being installed at a Belgian scrap facility located near the port of Antwerp The port of Antwerp is a capesize port in the heart of Europe. Antwerp is situated at the estuarium of the Scheldt. In this estuary ships of more than 100 000 tons sail 80 km inland. . Belgian Scrap Terminal NV (BST (convention) BST - British Summer Time. The name for daylight-saving time in the UK GMT time zone. ) has commissioned SiCon to set up the first stage of its process at a scrap facility in the port city of Kalto, near Antwerp. The plant will have an initial capacity of 8,000 metric tons per year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a SiCon news release, with the ability to expand available. The plant's design is based on a pilot plant set up by SiCon in Willebroek, Belgium, for BST over the previous six years. "During this period, the process engineering has been thoroughly tested for use on an industrial scale and different recycling channels have been established successfully," according to the SiCon news release. BST is also planning to add another SiCon process that will allow it to recycle plastics from electric and electronic scrap, according to SiCon. |
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