The major outputs of the project are:
- Two well documented full scale first generation sorting machines for two different types of solid waste
- Two reports including technical, environmental, economic evaluations of the sorting technologies
- Contacts to several potential European customers for the sensor
- Targeted spreading of information about the technology, the project and its results.
The direct environmental impacts of this project are that:
- Sorted industrial waste partly can replace coal as fuel at Danish central power plants eliminating emission of 39000 t CO2/y
- NiCd-batteries can be sorted out and recycled according to the EU Directive 2006/66/EC.
Both applications have high replication potential. The common result indicators of both applications are:
- Successful installation, commissioning and documentation of the sensor and sorting system
- Higher quality/value of the sorted waste streams/products – resulting in higher recycles rates and less emission
- Sorting accuracy and speed of the industrial applications
- Profitability of the new technology – for end-users and FORCE Technology
- Large number of potential customers identified and results disseminated.
