An automated hi-tech centre at Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, sorts larger volumes of waste

SUEZ built a new waste automated sorting plant to improve plastic waste recycling. This cutting-edge plant makes Rotterdam a pioneer town in the eco-responsible approach of the Netherlands and opens the way to the spreading of other similar plants in the country
The mission

Enter waste recycling into the Dutch environment dynamic

450,000
tonnes
the annual volume of plastic packaging waste produced in the Netherlands.
Our solution

Optimise waste sorting in Rotterdam through automation

The results
35,000
tonnes 
of plastic packaging waste are processed annually in the Rotterdam plant (between 2010 – 2014)
2/3
portion of the country's plastic packaging processed at the Rotterdam plant 
120.000
tons
of packaging waste are processed annually in the Rotterdam plant since 2015
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