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RECYCLING IN SPAIN: ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS THE CURRENT STATE OF RECYCLING IN SPAIN In Spain, recycling has experienced steady growth in recent years, with a particularly noteworthy improvement in the recycling of plastic waste. However, it still faces significant challenges, such as landfill dependence and lack of uniformity ...

MAXIMIZING GLASS RECYCLING IN EUROPE: CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) GLASS RECOVERY Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) covers a broad range of materials, each with its own characteristics and specific treatment and recycling requirements. Among MSWs, glass stands out both for the volume of waste generated and for the ecological impact it causes if not p...

The textile industry is classified as one of the industrial activities that currently generates the highest volume of waste. Proper management of textile waste, particularly post-industrial clippings and unsold garments, is crucial to reduce the environmental impact of the sector. Among the wide range of products, materials, and uses that this sector encompasses, used c...

CIRCULAR ECONOMY: SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY IN THE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE by Picvisa | Jun 22, 2023 | Circular economy The Circular Economy not only plays a crucial role in the fight against the climate emergency and the pursuit of sustainability, but also allows businesses to address current challenges related to supply, customer demands, and regulatory evoluti...

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) represents one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the EU: over 3 million tons in the last year, of which less than 40% is recycled. Recycling is falling behind compared to production, and the magnitude of the problem requires an approach where technologies such as optical sorting, artificial vision, and machine learni...

TECHNOLOGY SERVING TEXTILE ECODESIGN by Picvisa | May 12, 2023 | Textile recycling ecosort picvisa in operation The textile sector is in constant growth, and by 2025, 102 million tons of clothing are expected to be produced worldwide, representing a 63% increase compared to current production. Despite this, only 1% of recycled clothing today is turned into new garments....

Interview by Chat GPT with Luis Seguí, Managing Director of PICVISA. PICVISA has come a long way, from its humble beginnings in a garage in Igualada, where they experimented with ceramic quality control, to becoming a reference in glass and packaging recovery in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, and a pioneer in textile waste recovery. Thanks to cutting-edge t...

Plastic recycling is one of the great challenges of our time. Plastic has become one of the most widely used materials globally, but it is also one of the most problematic in terms of waste. Currently, millions of tons of plastic are generated each year, most of which end up in landfills, oceans, and other inappropriate locations. Plastic recycling is a key solution to ...

Textile recycling is an urgent need in our world. With the annual production of 92 million tons of textiles, of which 73% end up in landfills or incinerators, the environmental impact of the textile industry is enormous. However, the shortage of sorters has revealed that, despite the increased demand for recycled materials and growing awareness of sustainability, the la...

FLAKE SORTING: INNOVATION IN PLASTICS RECYCLING by Picvisa | Mar 16, 2023 | Plastics recycling Plastics recycling The proper management of plastic waste is one of the main environmental concerns of our time. The production of plastics, its rapid consumption and its widespread dumping in the natural environment – both on land and at sea – has increased exponentially in ...

Glass is a 100% recyclable material with a high potential to be reused, making it a sustainable and responsible solution for the future. Increasingly, companies like PICVISA are developing technologies that allow different types of materials to be automatically separated and classified, in order to recycle them effectively. APPLICATIONS OF RECYCLED GLASS Glass recycling...

According to a European Commission strategy paper on sustainable textiles, every second is dumped in landfills the equivalent of a garbage truck full of textiles is burned. If nothing changes, the consumption of clothing and footwear will increase by 63% until 2030 and by 2050 the fashion industry will consume a quarter of the global carbon budget. In March 2022, the Eu...

While Industry 4.0 focused on the digitalization of industrial processes and the use of new technologies to increase business productivity and efficiency, with Industry 5.0 a new opportunity opens up. According to the definition developed by the European Commission itself in its report, Industry 5.0 is a new paradigm that focuses on three key elements: human beings, envi...

The process of digitizing the three stages of waste management (collection, sorting and treatment), as we explained in our last blog post, is a reality. This complex process of transformation and innovation is not, however, the end point on the road to more sustainable, efficient and cost-effective waste management. With the digitization of recycling underway, new questi...

Waste management and treatment is currently immersed in a complex process of innovation and transformation to make the collection, classification and recycling of waste more efficient, profitable and respectful of the environment. This more efficient management is a real necessity for Europe, since, according to Eurostat, in 2020 each European produced 505 kilos of waste...

Two objectives that have to allow the glass industry, an innovative sector of great strategic value, to face a series of global challenges such as climate change, the scarcity of resources, or the intensive growth of cities and their increasing demand for glass. What contribution can the glass industry make to address these global challenges? First, accelerate the trans...

Environmental sustainability needs more sustainable waste management practices than today. The traceability of waste to be reused, recycled or recovered is already incorporated into any cutting-edge project in the sector, for competitiveness and efficiency. Data tracking is key to complying with existing laws and policies, and also to incentivizing regulations and polici...

European consumption of textile products ranks fourth for its impact on the environment and climate change, behind food, construction and mobility. The sector, however, is at the tail end in recycling. Each European discards 11 kilos of clothes a year, which is equivalent to about 7.5 million tons of waste, of which only 30 to 35% is collected, and only 1% is recycled to...

By then, all countries of the European Union will have to recycle 100% of their textile waste, more than 16 million tons per year, as established by the European directives on tissue recycling and waste management adopted in 2018. To make this challenge a reality, technology takes a leading role in the automated classification of textile waste. A technology based on the ...

With the fight against climate change at the top of the agenda in more and more countries, waste management is a key pillar to successfully make progress in it. Every year, approximately 300 million tons of plastic are produced, and it is estimated that, in five years, by 2025, there could be almost all that amount spilled into the oceans (250 million tons). The figures ...