• Spark of Innovation – Tetronics featured in Recycling Today

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  15th May 2012 in What's been happening

  There is growing realization around the world that electronic scrap is a vitally important source of many strategic and valuable metals. Increasingly stringent regulations and high commodity prices mean ‘urban mining’ of electronic scrap is becoming an ever more attractive option for raw material supply. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which consists of discarded [...]

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• Thermal Technologies – overcoming the variability of waste by Dr Tim Johnson

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  28th February 2012 in What's been happening

  One of the most difficult aspects of waste treatment is that ‘waste’ is a highly variable thing.  By its very nature, waste comes from an almost unlimited number of sources and in a huge range of compositions and forms.  Unfortunately, this inherent variability makes it harder to select the right waste treatment process for each [...]

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• Plasma Treatment of Spent Potliner ~ Tetronics featured in Aluminium International Today

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  24th February 2012 in What's been happening

  Aluminium is the second most widely used metal in the World today. During the production of Aluminium there are two wastes in particular that arise that continue to present serious challenges to both the aluminium and waste treatment communities.  The first of these is red mud, for which the standard method of disposal at present [...]

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• Securing secondary commodities from waste by Dr Tim Johnson

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  10th November 2011 in What's been happening

  These days it’s difficult to avoid noticing inflation.  Every time you pull up at the pump or buy food at the supermarket, every time you pay for your heating or you buy yourself some new clothes it’s right there – prices have gone up.  Now I know it might seem a difficult argument to make [...]

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• Responding to ever changing environmental legislation, by Dr Tim Johnson

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  3rd October 2011 in What's been happening

  Entry by Dr Tim Johnson, Technical Director at Tetronics I recently attended an environmental training course, along with around 15 other very interesting people from a wide range of waste-related companies.  Perhaps I’m slightly sad but I must confess I found the course very enjoyable, despite the written test at the end, and was thoroughly [...]

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