Intelligent Paper Sorting

摘要

The waste recycling industry is at a crossroads. North American recycling operations have seen historically reliable overseas markets for their fiber products become much more difficult to access. Rising global purity standards are either virtually unobtainable using traditional recycling methods or too costly to meet through adding more manual sorters. China National Sword and Blue Sky effectively closed the door of the worlds largest purchaser of recovered paper, and that was just the beginning. "Markets like Indonesia, India, and Japan are all following China's example and demanding the same high purity standards for recycled material," says Nick Doyle, recycling area sales manager, North America West, for TOMRA Sorting Recycling. The result is high supply, low demand, and a market saturated with recovered fiber.