Recovery of Secondary Raw Materials by Trevimetal for a Circular Economy in the Perspective of Sustainable Development

The transition from a linear to a circular economy is essential for a sustainable development. Advantages can be obtained in particular by a useful exploitation of virgin materials which are necessary for human activities. Circular economy has to rely on renewable energies and a proper waste management. Separate waste collection, recycling and re-use of materials provide evident benefits, even if the economical ones gradually become more and more difficult to be achieved. The waste collection sector is related to a better exploitation of secondary raw materials, for which an innovative legislation could realize a passport of the materials which are able to guarantee the traceability and the information about their composition for assessing the possibility of their re-using and recycling at the end of the life cycle. Trevimetal is a company located in the province of Treviso (Italy) and is specialized in the collection, transport, selection, working and final re-cycling of metals and scrap iron. By a modern plant, the society is able to recover the 100% of the scrap iron. In 2015 metal scrap devoted to steel industries and foundries was 70.3 % of the whole waste treated. Trevimetal employs a radiometric gateway to detect the radioactivity of the metals and scrap iron in income and outcome, and a phytodepuration plant for the treatment of waste waters, in order to achieve the goal of sustainable development. .