The focus of this short course will be on the processes followed at Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) as it relates to current recycling rates. Awareness Level. Duration: 25 min
Continue readingPlastic Waste Valorization for a Circular Economy: Perspective on Chemical Recycling
This webinar discusses the bottleneck of conventional plastic recycling and state-of-the-art emerging chemical recycling methods. Duration: 51 minutes
Continue readingPrecious Metal Recovery from Waste Printed Circuit Boards: Overview
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are an essential component of modern electronic equipment and are one of the more promising e-scrap sources of precious metals. 60 min.
Continue readingPrinting Inks & Deinking in the Paper Recycling Process – Expert
Course is focused on advanced concepts of printing inks chemistry, technology, recycling, and deinking methods for experts in paper industry field trying to expand their skills set. Duration 2 hr 15 min
Continue readingDesign Capture & Design for Remanufacturing
Discussions in this short course focus on how each technology areas fits within the remanufacturing process and why it is critical to successful remanufacturing. Awareness Level. Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes.
Continue readingPrinting Inks & Deinking in the Paper Recycling Process – Practitioner
Paper industry practitioners will deepen their knowledge of impact/nonimpact printing processes, inks used, and their main components. Course offers description of specific printing inks for processes such as non-impart printing, offset lithography, flexography, rotogravure, and screen printing.
Continue readingProduct Design Considerations for Plastic Recycling
This short course provides a brief introduction to product design considerations for plastic recycling. The design of plastic products can have a significant impact on the sustainability of the plastics industry. This course will cover plastic recycling and sustainability, the role that designers have within this space and guidelines for designing for recyclability. Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes
Continue readingRecycled Paper Pilot Plant & Industry Tour
This short course provides an “tour” of the recycled paper manufacturing process. It includes an entire paper recycling process at a pilot scale on WMU campus and a commercial production scale at GPI’s Kalamazoo mill with video clips of the running of a machine and PowerPoint slides.
Continue readingRecycling Challenges in a Medium-Sized City
This webinar will report on the city’s challenges, proposed solutions from the task force report and planned city actions relative to recycling. Duration: 54 min
Continue readingRedefining Value – The Manufacturing Revolution
REMADE and Remanufacturing Industries Council sponsored webinar to learn more about this important report: Redefining Value – The Manufacturing Revolution. Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair, and Direct Reuse in the Circular Economy. Duration: 46 minutes.
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