Material flow management located in the Green Tech Valley
Austria has, by far, the highest recycling and composting rate (65 %) amongst all the EU states and industrialised nations. As one of the first regions in Europe, Styria was talking about material flow management instead of waste management, waste being seen as a valuable good.
Today Styria is a model region for material flow management that is actually translated into action. In the course of material flow management, most materials are recycled as raw materials for new valuable products. In addition, Styria is an international pioneer by furnishing the facilities and systems developed for treating residual waste in innovative mechanical-biological and thermal processes.
Extracting fuel from waste
The conversion of waste or sewage sludge to high-quality and simultaneously low-emission fuel in one of the world’s most modern facilities in Styria attracts more than a thousand specialist visitors from all the continents every year. For instance, the fuel generated like this is used in cement works or in a few facilities for power and heat generation equipped with particularly innovative technology for minimising pollution.
Market leader in Southeast Europe in the field of turnkey waste solutions
Thanks to their long-standing experience and the high level of logistics and technological know-how, Styrian companies already have the highest number of customers satisfied with waste collection and recycling provided by Styrian companies in many new EU member states.
Shredding and composting bio-waste
In only one decade, a Styrian company has succeeded in becoming a global player and a leader in the fields of bio-waste composting and shredding on the basis of mechanical and mechanical-biological processes.
Glass recycling
Today Styrian companies are technology leaders with regard to innovative optoelectronic sorting of bulk materials, especially in terms of glass recycling.