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Reusable material made from landfill waste

(21 Mar 2018) LEADIN: A manufacturer in Israel has created a recyclable plastic-like composite which it says will revolutionise waste disposal and recycling. Called, UBQ, the material is made from unsorted landfill waste and can be converted into everyday plastic items such rubbish bins and chairs.    STORYLINE: A landfill site in Tseelim, Southern Israel.   Hawks, vultures and egrets  circle over Christopher Sveen's head in the midday desert sun as he points at the heap of putrid refuse behind him and beams: "This is the mine of the future." Sveen is chief operations officer at UBQ, an Israeli company that has patented a process to convert conventional household rubbish from landfills into a reusable composite material that can be used to manufacture products such as furniture and household items. "So what you're looking at here might look like garbage, but what we do is we convert it, and we can convert it into a chair, a table, a trash can, a flower pot. We can take something that is polluting the environment, to something that can hold the environment, that can be a nutrient for the environment, that can support the environment, whether it's construction products or whether it's infrastructure products, or whether it's consumer products that you'd go out to a store and buy," says Sveen. The company's focus is on landfill sites, where good recyclable waste has already been diverted to recycling plants, leaving behind a mix of unwanted, unsorted rubbish.   "The uniqueness of UBQ is that we really take the waste that nobody wants, we position ourselves at the end of the material value chain, if you will, where all the recycled materials are hopefully taken out and what we are left with is the end materials. The sad reality is, however, that a lot of the different wastes that you'll see in a landfill like this, is that a lots of other materials come here. So we tried to develop a robust technology that would be able to convert any and all materials from a mixed, heterogeneous sort into a singular composite material. And that's very, very different. We're mixing all these different materials into a singular material," he says.   At the processing plant the waste is ground down and prepared to be processed into pellets. "What you see in front of you is a pile of waste. When I say waste I mean household waste, that is usually thrown into landfills. It involves all your food leftovers, the banana peels, the chicken bones and the hamburger, the dirty plastics, the dirty cartons, the dirty papers, everything is in this material. We have dried it, we have grinded it, and we have converted it with our revolutionary patented technology into a material that we have been able to produce flower pots, panels, chairs. This is not plastic, this is waste, and these are the kinds of products you use everyday in every place," says Jack "Tato" Bigio, CEO of UBQ. According to the company website, the UBQ composite can be recycled up to five times without degradation.   "This is the same garbage that you were looking at a few seconds ago, and look at it now. It seems like any other raw material," says Albert Douer, Executive Chairman of UBQ. "At least 50% of the garbage that you saw, in other words of the chicken bones, of the vegetables, of whatever you saw outside, these garbage cans are at least 50% that material," he explains.   And according to Douer, the pellets can be used in existing factories without the need for replacing or updating production machinery.   Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...