Waste Recycling

Municipal solid waste contains significant quantities of valuable metals, including aluminium, copper, brass, steel, and electronic components. These materials often arrive mixed with organics, plastics, paper, and other non-metallic items, making effective separation challenging.

BlakerTech’s MagThro Eddy Current Separator efficiently recovers non-ferrous metals from mixed household waste streams. High-strength neodymium magnets ensure consistent performance even under heavy contamination, helping recycling facilities maximise metal recovery, improve operational efficiency, and enhance environmental performance.

Construction and demolition waste contains valuable metals such as copper piping, aluminium window frames, steel rebar, and brass fixtures. These materials are often heavily contaminated with concrete, timber, plastics, insulation, and other debris, making recovery challenging.

BlakerTech’s MagThro Eddy Current Separator efficiently processes shredded construction waste, separating non-ferrous metals from mixed building materials. Its robust design withstands the harsh, abrasive conditions of recycling plants, ensuring consistent, high-volume performance.

This system enables recycling facilities to maximise metal recovery, reduce waste, and maintain operational reliability.

Metal contamination can create significant challenges in plastics recycling, causing production delays and equipment damage. Even small metal fragments can compromise batches of recycled plastic, making effective metal separation essential.

BlakerTech’s high-performance magnetic separation systems protect plastics recycling operations by removing contaminants such as aluminium foil, steel caps, and copper wire fragments before materials reach processing equipment.

The MagThro Eddy Current Separator further recovers non-ferrous metals from shredded plastic streams, helping PET bottles, mixed plastics, and film recycling facilities maintain clean, consistent material streams while reducing downtime and maintenance costs.

Wood waste recycling is often complicated by metal contamination from nails, screws, hinges, and other fixtures. These embedded metals can damage chippers, shredders, and processing equipment, create safety hazards, and increase downtime.

BlakerTech’s magnetic and eddy current separation systems remove both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, including aluminium and brass, protecting equipment and extending its service life. This ensures the production of cleaner wood chips suitable for biomass energy, animal bedding, and composite board manufacturing, while improving operational efficiency and safety.

Composting operations are vulnerable to metal contamination, which can compromise product quality and damage processing equipment. Even small fragments of wire, stakes, or other metals can make compost unsuitable for commercial horticulture, landscaping, or other applications, making effective metal separation essential.

BlakerTech’s magnetic separators remove ferrous metals, while eddy current systems recover aluminium and other non-ferrous contaminants. This ensures clean, high-quality compost, protects downstream screening and bagging equipment, reduces maintenance costs and production interruptions, and helps facilities maintain consistent, high-standard output.

Paper recycling facilities often face metal contamination from staples, paperclips, binder rings, and packaging materials. These metals can damage pulping equipment, increase maintenance costs, and compromise the quality of recycled paper, reducing operational efficiency and profitability.

BlakerTech’s magnetic and eddy current separation systems effectively remove both ferrous and non-ferrous metals before pulping, protecting machinery and minimising downtime. By extracting contaminants such as aluminium, steel, and other metal fragments, our systems improve the purity and consistency of recovered fibre, enabling facilities to produce higher-quality paper products while maintaining smooth, efficient processing.

RDF production requires thorough metal removal to protect combustion equipment, meet fuel quality specifications, and ensure consistent energy output. Metal contamination can damage boilers, reduce combustion efficiency, and accumulate in ash residues, impacting performance and operational costs.

BlakerTech’s magnetic and eddy current separation systems effectively remove ferrous and non-ferrous metals from processed waste streams before fuel pelletisation or direct combustion, safeguarding equipment, improving fuel consistency, and maximising the value recovered from waste materials.