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Geocycle rethinks waste challenges and provides innovative solutions, as outlined by CEO, Axel Pieters Writer: Jack Salter | Project Manager: Nicholas Kernan
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lobally, almost four billion tonnes of municipal and industrial waste is generated annually, the large majority of which is uncontrollably dumped, landfilled or incinerated. The challenge of waste management evidently requires smarter, more sustainable answers, and thankfully, Geocycle offers this. As a leading worldwide provider of industrial, agricultural and municipal waste management services, Geocycle partners with over 10,000 customers across 50 countries. The Geocycle name alludes to the company’s holistic vision of turning unusable waste into a safe, usable resource, in turn contributing to a regenerative circular economy and minimising the wastage of scarce resources.
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“It’s a passion of ours to clean up the world and do something about plastic waste,” opens the CEO of Geocycle, Axel Pieters. “We are really committed to waste management and want to serve communities and society; this makes us different.”
INNOVATIVE DRIVE Based in Switzerland, Geocycle applies co-processing technologies and utilises existing facilities in the cement industry to resolve waste challenges sustainably. “We are a subsidiary of the biggest cement company in the world, Holcim, who are one of the very few to have a dedicated waste management business,” reveals Pieters.
A wide variety of waste materials are pre-processed by Geocycle into a homogenous waste mix with uniform, defined characteristics to make it suitable for co-processing in high-temperature cement kilns, which are internationally recognised for recovering and recycling all kinds of waste material.
