Plastic Recycling

LDPE film recycling with WEIMA shredder at RKW in Belgium

RKW produces a wide range of polyethylene films (LDPE films). At the Hoogstraten site in Belgium, the company has recently started using a WEIMA W5.18 single-shaft shredder and primarily shreds LDPE film waste from production as well as externally purchased film.

Feb 27, 2024

Reading time: about 3 minutes

• #business news
• #collection and handling

• Photos

  Is wood recycling the answer to the timber shortage?

  Wood Recycling is going strong

  The demand for wood is reaching new heights. But there is an ever-decreasing supply of the raw material. Wood recycling is therefore...

  Aug 15, 2022

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  • #artificial intelligence
  • #bulky waste

• Healix recycles ghost nets

  Ghost(net)buster in the Netherlands

  So-called ghost nets, left-over, floating fishing nets and ropes, pollute the world’s oceans. Dutch founder Marcel Albert started company...

  Jul 6, 2022

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  • #collection and handling
  • #innovation

• K trade

  WEIMA plastics shredding solutions at K 2022

  At this year’s K trade show in Düsseldorf, WEIMA will be exhibiting two new plastic shredders with single-shaft technology: the revised...

  Aug 12, 2022

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