NL: First advanced plastic sorting facility begins operating

27 February 2014

The Dutch Secretary of Infrastucture and the Environment Wilma Mansveld has attended the opening of a new mixed plastics sorting facility owned by Attero, a Dutch waste recovery firm. Mansveld said the sorting facility supported the Ministry's plan to repurpose waste into a valuable resource and was the first of its kind in the Netherlands.
The facility sorts the mixed stream of plastics that Attero recovers from household waste. Using infrared sensing technology and special separators, the facility automatically sorts mixed waste into five streams including PET, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and plastic films and bags (Recycling Laws International, 14 February 2014).
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