LafargeHolcim Bangladesh outlines Sylhet bio-drying plans
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh (LHB) and Sylhet City Corp have outlined plans for a bio-drying project to improve municipal waste segregation and support the recovery of plastics for ...
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Turning the tide on plastic waste in ASEAN Premium
OPTOCE pilot projects in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia have shown that cement kilns can safely co-process non-recyclable plastic waste at thermal substitution ...
Aligning with the Global Plastics Treaty: the cement industry’s role Premium
Co-processing in cement kilns offers a proven, scalable solution to eliminate non-recyclable plastic waste addressing the urgent problem of legacy plastics and microplastic poll...
Turning the tide on plastic waste in south Asia Premium
The cement industry in south Asia currently co-processes over 1Mta of non-recyclable plastic waste (NRPW). With further efforts, the region has the potential to achieve thermal ...
Unlocking opportunities Premium
Thailand’s dumpsites contain close to 190Mt of low-quality plastic waste, comprising mainly degraded and aged materials that pose challenges in terms of economically viable recy...
Dalmia Cement to burn 5000t of baled plastics in Ariyalur kilns
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) will be using 5000t of baled plastics to fire its cement kilns in Ariyalur following a memorandum of understanding with Greater Chennai Corp (GCC). The pr...
Holcim participates in coastal clean-up programme
Holcim and One Earth One Ocean have launched the Circular Explorer in Manila to be part of cleaning coastal areas in the Philippines. The first-of-its-kind 100 per cent solar po...
Philippine government urges cement producers to use plastic waste
To help reduce the country’s solid waste generation by at least 40 per cent Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has requested cement producers to e...
FLSmidth forms partnership in Vietnam for waste plastic co-processing
FLSmidth will work with TONTOTON, a waste handling start-up company in Vietnam, to assist local cement producers in replacing fossil fuels with non-recyclable plastic waste. Eig...
The value of co-processing
This week, the European cement association, Cembureau held an open webinar on 'A circular and carbon neutral Europe: The role of co-processing'. The webinar not only looked at h...