{"id":309,"date":"2018-06-05T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T08:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizon.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-06-05T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T08:47:34","slug":"smart-containers-to-reward-people-for-recycling-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/horizon\/309\/smart-containers-to-reward-people-for-recycling-properly\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart containers to reward people for recycling properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dotted\"><strong>Smart recycling containers that reward people for proper use could help drive up the rate of plastic recycling, reducing the amount of plastic that goes into oceans and landfill, and creating business opportunities out of the challenge to cut back on waste.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">It\u2019s part of a wave of innovations aiming to\u00a0keep plastic circulating in the economy,\u00a0which also include\u00a0a way to turn empty bottles back into raw materials and a new supply chain model\u00a0enabling the recycling of plastics\u00a0from electronic waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Cesar Aliaga from the ITENE Research Centre in Valencia, Spain, says that it\u2019s a challenge that can only be tackled if everyone in the recycling industry works together \u2014 and the first step is to encourage people to recycle properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He coordinates a project called PlastiCircle, which is developing a smart container for apartment buildings or neighbourhoods with the aim of increasing the proportion of waste that is recycled and reducing the amount sent to landfill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018The aim of the smart collection container is to make it easier for citizens to separate waste,\u2019 said Aliaga, \u2018but also to tell who is doing it well and to reward them for this behaviour.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Equipped with arrays of sensors, the containers will be able to sense the quality and quantity of the waste deposited, as well as who is doing the depositing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-view quotesBlock quote_horizontal\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">&#8216;The aim of the smart collection container is to make it easier for citizens to separate waste, but also to tell who is doing it well and to reward them for this behaviour.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Cesar Aliaga, ITENE Research Centre, Valencia, Spain<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Incentive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">As an incentive, those people or neighbourhoods separating waste correctly could receive benefits like reduced city rubbish taxes or decide to spend such savings on community projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">But a smart container is just the start \u2014 once sensors in the container\u00a0detect it\u2019s full enough, they alert the waste truck, which is optimised for efficiency with both compacting systems and pickup routes based on container and city data fed into a cloud platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Aliaga says the project\u2019s partners are developing an innovative sorting system to more efficiently separate the different plastics collected, combining a range of scanning and imaging technologies with the near-infrared sensing traditionally used to sort plastics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018About 30% of plastic is recycled, but with (most) packaging waste this material is currently only used for low-end applications,\u2019 said Aliaga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018There is plenty of room to boost reuse of plastics and our idea is to use this in new, high-value applications\u00a0&#8230; such as automotive parts with Centro Ricerche FIAT, roofing membranes, garbage bags and high-quality urban furniture,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">PlastiCircle will, in the next few years, launch project pilots in neighbourhoods of Valencia, Alba lulia in Romania, and Utrecht in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">If successful, initiatives like this could be vital for hitting the EU\u2019s strategic goals for plastics in a circular economy, which aim for<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/circular-economy\/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0all plastics packaging to be recyclable by 2030,<\/a>\u00a0in addition to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-18-3927_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a proposed crackdown banning\u00a0<\/a>single-use plastics, like straws and cotton buds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The 2030 targets essentially require that plastic is kept in circulation, with waste products being turned into new resources circulating in biological and technical loops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Sadly, the current reality is far from circular. Less than 30% of the more than 25.8 million tonnes of plastic Europe produces every year is recycled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Goldmine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Even ignoring the huge CO2 emissions and environmental impacts this has, let alone the need for oil as an input for the majority of these plastics, Europe is sitting on a potential goldmine \u2014 the plastic material lost every year represents \u20ac10.56 billion in wasted resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Garbo is an Italian company that\u2019s trying to prove there\u2019s good money in making plastic circular. They are tweaking a chemical process known as glycolysis to recycle polyethylene terephthalate (PET), very often the base element of plastic bottles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The current problem, says Garbo\u2019s general director Fabio Fizzotti, is that only a small percentage of recycled PET pellets can be used in new bottles, while the low demand for coloured PET bottles and other PET waste sees this go to landfill or incinerators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Under a project called ChemPET, which finished last year, Garbo found it could efficiently use glycolysis to dissolve and break down PET-containing plastics into a form that can be used to create new PET bottles without the need for any virgin plastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018Technically speaking, we can recycle any kind of PET, and in the long-term such recovered materials must be cheaper \u2014 you cannot convince people to create a project without (an) economic reason,\u2019 said Fizzotti. \u2018But in Italy, people have to pay several hundred euros per tonne to burn the waste, so at that point, we can be competitive with virgin plastics.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">With a successful trial run out of the way, Fizzotti says the right funding could see Garbo opening its first plant capable of treating 50 tonnes per day within six months, thanks to its experience and facilities for glycolysis recycling of silicon powders for the solar industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He says this could expand to 100 tonnes per day with further partners and easily be scaled to factories across Europe, with no lack of raw materials available in the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018The amount of refuse in Europe is so high that 100 tonnes per day is just a small part of the pie. Even looking at black, carbon-coloured bottles, these are not recoverable with normal recycling methods and there are huge amounts of this just being burnt for thermal recovery.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">However, one of the biggest sources of unrecycled plastic is waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Europeans throw away, on average, 16.6 kg of plastic WEEE every year, with the bloc annual total expected to reach 12 million tonnes by 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Misconceptions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">According to Violeta Nikolova of the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany, one of the barriers to recycling WEEE is that there are outdated misconceptions about the value, quality and attractiveness of recycled plastics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018For costs and benefits, for example, investing in recycled plastics would soon be essentially the same as investing in virgin plastics, with the difference of being able to tap into a fast-growing e-waste stream that contains billions of euros worth of plastic materials,\u2019 says Nikolova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">She works on the PolyCE project, which is aiming to create a circular economy supply chain for WEEE plastics. Over the next three years, the project, which is led by the Fraunhofer Institute IZM in Berlin, Germany, will develop a grading system for recycling\u00a0plastics based on their material properties and potential applications,\u00a0and draw\u00a0up guidelines for designing new electronics with recycled plastics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Their work\u00a0includes technical innovations such as the development of a purer recycled plastic that removes toxic flame-retardants \u2014 thus creating a product appealing to the whole supply chain, from designers to consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The project is also developing attractive, colourful demo products to prove that recycled plastics are no longer the grey, inferior products of yesteryear. The specific ideas are still under wraps but partners include Dutch electronics firm Philips and American appliance manufacturer Whirlpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Nikolova says the role of this in winning over consumers and product designers is important as then companies will begin to sit up and take notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>\u2018<\/strong>Once you have the buy-in from the consumer, this is key as bigger companies will then take the lead in introducing recycled products, followed by competitors and smaller businesses in the supply chain \u2014 and then policy-driven incentives help with scaling this recycling up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\">Horizon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart recycling containers that reward people for proper use could help drive up the rate of plastic recycling, reducing the amount of plastic that goes into oceans and landfill, and creating business opportunities out of the challenge to cut back on waste. 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