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In the Eure, an ultramodern sorting center increases recycling capacities

2021-10-25T08:56:21.030Z


98% of recyclable waste is sent for recovery thanks to the new Guichainville sorting center. Who has never found themselves perplexed in front of their trash, wondering if their waste was recyclable or not? From now on, for users of a large part of the Eure, sorting is simplified. All packaging, plastics, metals and also small aluminum are collected, sorted and sent to the various recovery industries thanks to the new sorting center in Guichainville, near Évreux (Eure). The communities of


Who has never found themselves perplexed in front of their trash, wondering if their waste was recyclable or not?

From now on, for users of a large part of the Eure, sorting is simplified.

All packaging, plastics, metals and also small aluminum are collected, sorted and sent to the various recovery industries thanks to the new sorting center in Guichainville, near Évreux (Eure).

The communities of Agglo Seine Eure, SETOM and SYGOM have invested 16.2 million euros so that nothing gets through.

For this, they rely on new technologies.

A first in Normandy.

Located on the Ecoval site where the unit for recycling household waste into electricity is already located, a source of heat for the urban network of Évreux, the new sorting center was put into service in August 2021. After a procedure for call for tenders, the Paprec company was selected as the public service delegate (DSP).

A course on 120 mats

A complex industrial tool, with a capacity of 30,000 tonnes of sorted waste per year, its goal "is to make sorting instructions simpler thanks to the new instructions applied throughout the department", explains Alain Petitbon, President of SETOM.

Thus, under a building of 5000 m2 and more than 12 m high, in a ceaseless ballet, the trucks come to empty the waste.

They are then loaded onto a route that includes no less than 120 carpets.

First sorted by size, from more than 300 mm to less than 90 mm thanks to grids, the ferrous metals are then magnetized and the others blown by a magnetic field.

Attracted by a polar wheel, small foils (yoghurt capsules, coffee pods, etc.) no longer escape sorting.

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For their part, the hollow bodies (bottles, milk cartons, etc.) are separated from the flat bodies (paper, cardboard, etc.) by ballistic screens: “These are bands that move like steps. Plastics and cardboard fly and bounce, ”explains Cédric Deluca, the director of the production site. But it does not stop there. The waste then passes under lasers. The spectrograms can recognize the different materials and send them to the appropriate bins.

There, they are transformed into bales and will take over the management of recovery units in France and Europe for a new life: “With this technology, we are able to sort 90% of the flow.

The rest goes through a latest generation sorting booth where thirteen agents operate in a bright and odorless room, equipped with ergonomic workstations.

In the end, we have a result of 98% which is refined over time, ”completes the framework.

Source: leparis

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