Dive Brief:

• Meldgaard, based in Denmark, currently operates three ash recycling plants in the U.S.
• The firm has worked with ash materials for more than 20 years, and devised a system to process the ash and effectively recover “record levels” of non-ferrous metals.
• Meldgaard cited an increase in the value of scrap metals as the reason for its decision to expand its ash recycling to waste-to-energy (WTE) operations.

Dive Insight:

The company noted that that the collection of ferrous and non-ferrous waste from WTE ash is a rapidly developing market worldwide.

Meldgaard explained there is a vast difference between American and European ash in the complexity of the extraction process, and the company addressed these differences by altering its designs specifically for U.S. plants.