Waste and recycling

With the mass production and consumption of products comes the challenge of managing their end of life.

Products made up of the most diverse materials (e.g. glass, plastic, metal, cardboard, electrical and electronic), when they reach the end of their life cycle, are seen as waste, but have economic value.

The circular economic model envisages them being recycled and becoming resources again, giving rise to new products.

Producing new products using recycled raw materials often requires less energy than producing a product with new materials.

In addition, recycling plants can be optimized from an energy point of view by improving their energy efficiency, monitoring their energy or by producing renewable energy for self-consumption.