Digital technologies hold enormous potential for improving the performance of future-
generation sorting and processing plants; however, this potential remains largely untapped …

Quality of recycling is a concept used by many authors in the scientific literature and the EU
legislator. However, a clear definition of what is intended for quality of recycling and a …

Household packaging waste sorting facilities consist of complex networks of processes to
separate diverse waste streams. These facilities are a key first step to re-enter materials into …

Sensor-based material flow characterization (SBMC) promises to improve the performance
of future-generation sorting plants by enabling new applications like automatic quality …

Sorting plants are crucial for effective recycling, but their optimization can be challenging
due to the heterogeneity of waste streams. We introduce a novel approach to holistically …

Today's post-consumer plastic recycling is limited by labor-intensive manual quality control
(MQC) procedures, resulting in largely unknown pre-concentrate purities. Sensor-based …

Sensor-based sorting describes a family of systems that enable the removal of individual
objects from a material stream. The technology is widely used in various industries such as …

Sensor-based material flow monitoring allows for continuously high output qualities, through
quality management and process control. The implementation in the waste management …

Sensor-based sorting in waste management is a method to separate valuable material or
contaminants from a waste stream. Depending on the separation property different types of …

The “European Union Training Network for Resource Recovery Through Enhanced Landfill
Mining (NEW-MINE)” was a European research project conducted between 2016 and 2020 …