28 October INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
For manufacturers, sorting at the source is an essential step to separate waste according to its type and nature, direct it to the appropriate channel and recover it. Since 2016e multi-waste sorting became Rule with the decree says "5 streams “which concerns 5 types of waste: paper/cardboard, metal, plastic, glass and wood. In 2021, a decree of the Agec law extended this system to “7 streams” by integrating mineral fraction waste and plaster waste.
1. What is industrial waste?
There are two types of industrial waste:
- Non-hazardous industrial waste (DIB): Wood and pallets, plastic, flooring, cardboard, plaster, metals, etc.
- Hazardous industrial waste: organic waste (hydrocarbons, solvents, etc.), hospital or veterinary waste, sewage sludge, solid mineral waste, liquid and semi-liquid mineral waste, etc.
All companies therefore produce industrial waste. As mentioned above, since 2016, the law on energy transition obliges producers of non-hazardous industrial waste to sort and collect under 5 distinct streams. The goal: to reuse or recycle them.
2. Some benefits of industrial waste management…
The “waste recycling” sector has many advantages. Ademe lists the main economic and environmental advantages of this sector:
- Preserving human health and the environment
- Save materials by reusing them
- Federate its employees around common values
- Comply with regulations
- Participate in job creation
Define a waste management policy for companies thus presents multiple profits. Some waste can even be resold or reused : they then become one resource for industry by becoming secondary raw materials.
3. What solutions for managing industrial waste?
Personalized companies specializing in multi-waste offer collection, sorting and recovery services for these waste. They also offer dumpster rentals.
For example, the supplier Negometal environment registered on Takagreen specializes in the collection of industrial waste by offering comprehensive waste management in accordance with the new "7-flow sorting" directive, as well as a service for the collection and provision of selective sorting containers/bins. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals as well as industrial collection materials (DIB) are sorted and recovered to ensure their full reintegration as raw material in the production cycle. This process is traced in order to allow companies to track their waste and comply with the decree. The company also offers a service for the recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous metals by indexing itself to market prices.
Other suppliers registered on our platform also offer industrial waste collection, sorting and recovery services (DIB): this is the case with Chimirec, Dubai, Sermacus, To the authorities, TGE environment, Tri Valleys, CPR Recycling, Environmental tricycles, Alme Environment, Groom, Trio, Greenwishes
To find out more about industrial waste management, see our dedicated section on our Takagreen platform.