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The landfill paradox
Published in Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan, Karma Eddison-Cogan, The Temporalities of Waste, 2020
In the course of our walk on the heap, Harald and I went along the different sections of the structure as its internal geography unfolded step by step: behind me, the closed-down section, marked by grass coverage and cylindrical components looming out of the trash heap in even intervals; under my feet, a mixture of excavation earth and compacted waste forms the “material background,” which at first sight can’t necessarily be identified as waste. Looking more carefully, here and there some remains of packaging, cans or plastic bags peek out of the ground; in one corner there are several small piles of mineral waste and/or slag (in one of them there are some rusty cans and other metal objects mixed in the slag), each numbered, which means—as Harald explained—that they have not yet been authorised, but will have to wait for the results of the laboratory to obtain their final authorisation to remain on-site; in another corner, a hole, rather looking like a small crater, filled up with sludgy, swampy ash-grey/black material and girded by a system of pipes and sockets: powdery combustion residues, mixed with liquids and pumped in the sinkhole in order to bind the dusty waste. My attention is also caught by some Bigbags (technical term: Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) lying around as well as cubic waste bales packed in stretch film and piled up like giant building blocks; in between, several workers on their vehicles are doing their job, some of them dumping waste, some of them compacting the waste to build up the structure on which they stand (see Figure 9.1). According to Harald, all-in-all the waste keeps coming in vast quantities, which in recent years even exceeded the anticipated annual storage.
Flexible Containment for Primary Manufacturing/Bulk Operations
Published in James P. Wood, Containment in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 2020
Steven M. Lloyd, Ronald W. Wizimirski
In the processing of pharmaceutical compounds, those compounds must typically be transferred to and from processing equipment, transfer systems, and storage containers. Typically, this is accomplished through a series of manipulative steps performed by plant operators. A transfer container, such as a Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container (FIBC), is placed on the discharge port of a batch processing vessel.
Technical Textiles and Recent Developments
Published in Asis Patnaik, Sweta Patnaik, Fibres to Smart Textiles, 2019
Packtech deals with the technical textiles products used for packaging applications. Packtech products include the following: polyolefin woven sacks, flexible intermediate bulk container, leno bags, jute hessian sacks, tea bags (filter paper), soft luggage, absorbent meat pad, etc. (Baseline survey 2014).
A green procurement methodology based on Kraljic Matrix for supplier`s evaluation and selection: a case study from the chemical sector
Published in Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 2019
Felipe Sanchez Garzon, Manon Enjolras, Mauricio Camargo, Laure Morel
An analysis was realised for a supply product of the company named Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container (FIBC), a flexible plastic container used for the product delivery to the customers. First, the buyer has to assign the weight of the criteria related to the GSC for each quadrant of the matrix: routine, bottlenecks, leverage, strategic (Table 4). These weights depend on the procurement strategy of the company. Then, the same process is realised for the criteria related to quality. For the evaluated supplier, each claim has a negative value. The weights for the quality axis are shown in Table 5 (Step 4).