Our mission is to develop new ways of recycling at the same speed as new products are introduced to the market. We come up with innovative solutions creating a higher value for you throughout the whole recycling chain: from new processing and logistics to staff education and IT solutions. To put it simply, we create a sustainable business resulting in a diminished environmental impact.
We invest continuously in environmental solutions, good logistical solutions, R&D work and training. Processing technologies and logistical solutions are improved to ensure more efficient recycling and trading.
Mythbusters
There are a lot of opinions about what is or is not possible to recycle. We have one simple philosophy: waste is not a problem. It is a resource and as much as possible must be recycled in the most efficient way. Deposit volumes must be eliminated in a long-term perspective. When there is no solution currently available, we are constantly searching for new sustainable business solutions.
Milestone in the recycling of WEEE plastic
Plastics in computers, TVs and other electronic waste have, for a long time, been a problem to recycle. With a new facility in Halmstad in Sweden, Stena can separate plastics, both with and without brominated flame retardants, from one another. The winners are the customers and the environment. Large quantities of pure plastic can now be utilized and returned to circulation. The new technique is used on the waste fraction from electronic waste after being carefully decontaminated of all damaging substances and components.
Great potential to increase the recycling of CRT-glass in Europe
Many people still do not know that there is an extremely effective technique for recycling picture tubes (Cathode Ray Tube glass, CRT) from TVs and computer monitors. At our plant, cathode-ray tube glass from over ten million TVs and monitors has been recycled since the facility first opened. The material is refined to a first-rate material for new picture tubes. There is great potential for growth; as a rough estimate, 65 per cent of the CRT glass in Europe today is not recycled. This means about 300,000 tons. In spite of the new LCD technique, millions of old CRTs are still used, and every year 60-80 million new CRT appliances are produced.