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The requirement for leitmotif

PRIORITISING WASTE RECOVERY,
THE CHIMIREC RULE

Our Group is a driving force in making proposals
to its customers, providing them with all the
advice they need to maximise the recovery of the
waste they produce. More and more companies
are becoming aware of the need to protect the
environment and are increasingly turning to value-
added solutions.

Question to
Mathieu Taubaty,
Platform manager,
CHIMIREC Centre East

In the field, how do you proceed for an optimal A constant search for optimising
recovery of the collected waste? recovery
” When considering any waste, we ask ourselves Our objective is to reduce the burial of waste as

much as possible and to reduce energy recovery in
about its treatment potential, and then about its
favour of material recovery. Always on the lookout
possibilities for material or energy recovery. For
example, for pasty waste, two recovery options
lookout for new recovery processes. At the same
are possible: either transformation into Energy for innovative solutions, we are constantly on the
Substitution Fuel (ESF), or incineration producing time, we are constantly fine-tuning the sorting, both
energy in the form of steam or electricity. at our customers' premises and at our site. ”

In 2019, + 6% on the rate of recovery
of polluted water

Our activities lead us to manage polluted waters.
These waters can for example be recovered by a PLAYER IN THE CIRCULAR
physicochemical treatment to purify them or by ECONOMY
evaporative concentration to extract the pollutants.
In this second case, the pollutants are recovered
energetically, while the water is treated again before The CHIMIREC Group is in line with European
discharge. Parliament Directive 2008/98/EC, which
recommends the following hierarchy for waste
treatment:
1 - preparation for reuse.
2 - recycle.
3 - other forms of recovery, in particular energy
recovery.
4 - disposal.

Source: ADEME
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