• FIPS participated in the Brainstorming Conclave on Atmanirbhar North East through S&T Interventions during 21st & 22nd December, 2021 at Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, organized by North East Centre for Technology Application & Reach ( NECTAR). Prof Jagdish Mukhi, Hon'ble Governor of Assam was the Chief Guest. Prof Bhavesh Ch. Goswami, Vice Chancellor, Cotton University, Guwahati, Prof. Arun Kumar Sarma, Director General, NECTAR and other dignitaries were present during the event.
  • Prof N.C. Saha, Founder Chairman, FIPS has Chaired the Technical Session on S&T Innovations to provide Livelihood Opportunities in the North East - Technology solution on Agriculture and Food Processing on 21st December, 2021, Guwahati during Brainstorming Conclave,. Mr M.K. Banerjee, Director, FIPS and Mr S. Bhattachrjee, Chief Consultant, FIPS were the speakers.
  • FIPS has also participated into TECHFAIR with a Booth to showcase the activities of FIPS at Cotton University, Guwahati during 21st & 22nd December, 2021, organized by NECTAR.
  • FIRST FOUNDATION DAY OF FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE PACKAGING AND SUSTAINABILITY will be celebrated through VIRTUAL MODE on 28th January, 2022 at 4 PM onwards.
  • Mr Atul Bagai, Head of Country Office, UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM( UNEP) and Prof. Manoj K. Tiwari, Director, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ( NITIE), Mumbai will be the "KEYNOTE " speakers.
  • Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai, Director, CHANAKYA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES, University of Mumbai & Author, India's Best selling book " CORPORATE CHANAKYA"  will deliver a "MOTIVATIONAL TALK" on " CHANAKYA NITI FOR BUSINESS GROWTH".
  • One Month ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ( MODULE-3) On "  ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN FLEXIBLE AND RIGID PLASTIC PACKAGING" in association with All India Plastic Manufacturers Association ( AIPMA) will be organized during 24th February, 2022 to 25th March, 2022.
  • Virtual Conference on " PLASTICS PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT: SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION ( PART-2)- Deriving Value from Post- Consumer Multilayer Packaging ( MLP) Waste was organised in association with M.G.University, Kottyam, Kerala on 21st October, 2021 at 3 PM.
  • On-Line Short term during ( 40 hours) Certificate Program on " Innovative Packaging and Sustainability", Organized by Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi with FIPS as Knowledge Partner. The course was held on 26th July to 28th September, 2021.
  • Virtual Conference on " Pathways to a Profitable Recycling Enterprise" ( Part-1) under the series conference on " Plastic Packaging waste Management" was held on 29th July,2021. Mr R. R.Rashmi, Rtd IAS, Former Chief Secretary, Manipur & Distinguished Fellow, TERI was the Chief Guest.
  • FIPS in association with Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Govt of India will organize Virtual Conference on  "Patient friendly Packaging for Pharmaceuticals"  on 2nd August, 2021 at 3 PM. Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, Secretary cum Scientific Director, IPC was the Chief Guest to inaugurate this conference.

Material Recycling the voice of India Recycling Industry Oct-Nov-2020

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Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is made up of many different materials. When recycling this equipment, it is sought above all, and as far as it is possible, to fully recover the metallic fraction (ferrous, non-ferrous and precious metals). the metal fractions are the “object of desire” and various techniques are available for almost complete metal recovery. But electronic waste also contains other recyclables such as aBs, Ps and other materials. there could still be certain amounts of residual substances (like dust, glass, etc) which, in some cases have only low or no value at all. they nevertheless have to be separated from the recyclable materials.

Beside the “metals” resource, the “plastics” resource should also have to play a large role in recycling. this is however mostly not the case in practice, as recovery of clean plastic fractions from EEE waste is much more laborious than recycling of the metals. this is because the presently available sorting possibilities can only exploit the entire plastics raw material potential to a limited extent. a large proportion of this material is therefore lost and is used, for example, to recover thermal energy.

The granulate material purity achievable with electrostatic separation are very high and sometimes stretch beyond 99.50%. the recyclate is so clean that it can easily be used again to produce high-grade compounds and, in turn, can be processed into new technical products. in this way, valuable technical raw materials can be recovered from materials that cannot be processed further. Depending on the application, expensive virgin material can be entirely or at least partially replaced by more favourably priced recyclate. many products can then be produced entirely from recycled plastics. this is an important economic aspect, especially against a background of rising oil and raw material prices. In addition, it also makes an important contribution towards environmental protection through avoidance of waste.

Plastics from Electronic waste

By definition, “electrical and electronics scrap” arises from a number of different types of equipment. as no material pre-separation into clear-cut pre-separation according to types of materials is made in recycling companies while processing, this mixture of materials ends up in shredding plants. this leads to mixed plastics waste after the metal fraction has been separated out. the residual material, consisting not only different plastics, but will be dust, wood, glass, residual metals, elastomers and many other such undesired contaminants.

The task of plastics recyclers then consists of production from this complex mixture of re-usable plastics fractions. as experience shows, particularly high demands are placed on purity of the recyclate, as they often compete with virgin materials. on the other hand, there is also a task here of recovering the highest possible proportion of clean plastics, so that as little as possible good material is lost. Plastics recycling is only economical if the highest possible proportion of material fractions is recovered.

However, it has been observed in recycling that not all plastics can be brought back into circulation, on account of legal requirements. among these, plastics like that containing brominated flame retardants may not be reused, and have to be separated into separate fraction. there are furthermore also many other plastics present, such as Pc or Pmma, which are only present in low amounts of 1 – 2 % in the entire plastics fraction. on account of the low amounts of these plastics, recycling only pays off to a limited extent, as the effort required to recover these plastics is sometimes higher than the possible return from them. the largest proportion of plastics in mixed electronics waste consists of Ps and aBs, as well as PP. Experience shows that these materials make up around 55% of the input material and that 40 to 50% of the input material consists of uneconomically recoverable plastic, flame retarded materials, impurities, etc. Work is however ongoing to minimise this fraction with new processes and thereby to raise the return.

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