Institut für Energie und Kreislaufwirtschaft (IEKrW)

Waste management and recycling

The institute executes waste sorting analysis of various types of waste (municipal waste, recyclables, commercial and industrial waste) for companies and public bodies regularly and analysis recycling opportunities. Our further fields of activity include amongst others the development of operational and municipal waste disposal concepts, investigations for optimization of waste management plants (e.g. MBT, waste heating plants, biogas plants, composting plants) as well as material and energetic waste recycling, supporting analysis for the commissioning of technical plants and material flow analysis.

Waste sorting analysis

2022 – 2023	Quantity analysis of residual waste in the production of a car manufacturer in Northern Germany
2022	Sorting analysis of bio waste in a rural district in Lower Saxony
2022	Sorting analysis of bio waste in a rural district in Schleswig-Holstein
2022	Sorting analysis and laboratory tests on different waste fractions from industry and development of new disposal options
2022	Carrying out a sorting analysis of organic waste in a rural district in Lower Saxony
2022	Sorting analysis of bio waste in a rural district in Lower Saxony
2022	Sorting analysis of bio waste in a city in Lower Saxony
2021	Sorting analysis of household waste and bio waste in a rural district in Lower Saxony
2021	Sorting analysis and laboratory tests of lightweight packaging and commercial waste sorting residues from waste processing plants in Bremen
2019	Sorting analysis of waste paper from municipal collection for a city in Lower Saxony
2018 – 2019	Sorting analysis of residual waste for a city in Lower Saxony
2018	Sorting analysis of commercial waste from a commercial waste sorting plant
2018	Sorting analysis on commercial waste of a car manufacturer in Bremen
2017	Sorting analysis of different paper types of a paper mill in northern Germany
2015	Sorting analysis of waste paper from municipal collection
2013	Sorting analysis to capture the proportion of small electrical appliances in the residual waste
2012	Sorting analysis of plastics (bulky waste) in a northern German city, and analysis of recovery options and opportunities
2012	Sorting analysis of recyclables (yellow bag) in several rural districts in Lower Saxony
2012	Sorting analysis of household-type waste for a school in Lower Saxony
2011	Sorting analysis of household waste in several rural districts in Lower Saxony
2010	Sorting analysis of household waste in an MBA in Lower Saxony
2009	Sorting analysis of waste paper, impurities in container places, illegal dumping and disposal of waste in public places in Bremen
2008	Sorting analysis including types of plastics determination of input and output fractions of sorting of the recycling parks Lower Weser

Further selected references

2022 – 2023	Services for creating a corporate carbon footprint (CCF) for a waste management company in northern Germany
2022	Implementation and organization of the conference “Recycling of post-consumer plastic waste” as part of the project “Network building to strengthen companies and promote more sustainable production through the recycling of plastics
2021	Laboratory tests on waste from industry and development of new disposal options
2021	Preparation of CO2 balances for waste treatment and wastewater plants in North Rhine-Westphalia
2021	Revision of waste management concept of a small city in northern Germany
2020 – 2022	Applied environmental research (AUF program): RecyleWind 2.0
2020 – 2021	AI lighthouses for the environment, climate, nature and resources: AI and robotics for a sustainable circular economy (SmartRecycling)
2020	Concept generation for the establishment of a recycling and disposal centre for onshore and offshore wind turbines in Bremerhaven
2019	Determination of the calorific value of sorting residues from commercial waste treatment
2018	Studies on the state of construction waste utilization in Bremen
2012 – 2013	Development of a waste management concept for the offshore wind industry in northern Germany
2008	Inventory, documentation and monitoring of a company’s internal use or a sale of a waste treatment facility
2006 – 2007	Scientific support for the implementation of the concept for the adoption of loose residual waste
2006 – 2007	Accompanying investigations to the commissioning of mechanical-biological waste treatment plant in northern Germany
2005	Accompanying investigations to the commissioning of a MBT