Oakdene Hollins Ltd

 Waste Minimisation through
 Recycling, Re-use & Recovery

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Under the WMR3 programme, the DTI and EPSRC committed over £10m to research within processing and manufacturing industry into Waste Minimisation by Recycling or Re-use of materials within processes and plant, and by Recovery of product/components to enable their re-use. The programme is now closed. A pdf link for the Co-ordinator's report on the WMR3 Programme is available for download (pdf 888kB)

Reports are in Adobe Reader format, and a free reader can be obtained from the Adobe web-site

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 WMR3 Showcase:

Click the following links for pdf reports of a sample of the WMR3 projects:

Combined water treatment with adsorbents loaded with reactive gases

(472kB) 

Development of a novel and efficient process for detoxification and re-use of contaminated fly-ash

(517kB) 

Development of a novel recycling process for the recovery of plastic composite materials

(901kB) 

Reclamation of Platinum group metals from spent automobile catalyst exhaust converters

(504kB) 

Recovery of chromium oxide as sodium chromate and ferrochrome alloy from Cr2O3 containing industrial waste

(468kB) 

Solvent vapours, recovery and recycling in the printing industry

(391kB) 

The physical and chemical reclamation of elements from black and white aluminium furnace residues

(714kB) 

Treatment of electronic scrap

(747kB) 

Waste minimisation through recycle of metal from industrial effluent

(490kB) 

Water recycling by photo-electrochemical oxidation of organic contaminants

(483kB)