Glass Extraction Hits 95% Purity Levels Even With Dirty Infeed

Tomra Sorting Recycling has introduced Autosort Color, a unit that works in combination with Autosort Laser to separate glass from municipal solid waste (MSW). Autosort Color achieves purity rates of greater than 95% at high throughput rates, even when input materials are wet, dusty or dirty. The unit enables sorting operations to extract the glass from the MSW stream for resale. It also reduces the risk of disruption, downtime and repair costs arising from damage to components when glass ends up in sorting machines that are not intended for glass.