Today household waste is mostly composed of five Fractions:
1. Metals: The different metals are easy to separate from the waste and can be sold easily at metal smelters.
2. Glass: The so-called cullet is also easily separable and is a required product by the glass industry for production of glass.
3. Paper / Cardboard: the paper cardboard mixtures too are readily processed in many different well-established processes to create a wide variety of products.
Whilst separation and processing of these three fractions is already standard practice, together with our consortium of specialised companies we have the most innovative state of the art solutions at our disposal.
So far there have been no or only insufficient concepts for processing the 4th and 5th fraction. For these two fractions, AmoCarbon has innovative technologies that literally turn waste into value.
4. Organic waste: This problematic mixture of partly contaminated organic materials is now rotting with strong odor and gas creation in landfills and often threatens groundwater sources. AmoCarbon has a process available in which this mixture, under exclusion of air, is converted into a high-quality organic fertilizer by so-called effective microorganisms. During this process organic toxins and pharmaceutical contaminants are completely broken down. In conjunction with the activated carbon generated in process no. 5, an AmoCarbon organic fertilizer with extraordinary characteristics is created, for which there is large global demand.
5. Mixed plastics: This mixture of contaminated plastics of all kinds is the biggest problem in waste processing. Up to now for this fraction there was no satisfactory solution for a sustainable recycling.