Tunisian company Elec'Recyclage is inaugurating a non-hazardous industrial waste recycling plant at its site in the Utique-Bizerte industrial zone in northern Tunisia. The plant has a capacity of 1,300 metric tonnes per month.
The Utique-Bizerte non-hazardous industrial waste recycling plant is now operational. The facility, located in the Elec’Recyclage industrial zone in northern Tunisia, was the focus of a ceremony on 8 June 2023 attended by John Milot, CEO of the Elec’Recyclage group, Jürgen Rigterink, Senior Vice-President and Head of the Customer Services Group at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Nodira Mansurova, Head of EIB Operations in Tunisia, Marcus Cornaro, the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Tunisia, and André Parant, the French Ambassador to Tunisia.
The new recycling plant is equipped with a 135 m3 shredding workshop and a facility for conditioning and compacting non-hazardous industrial waste. This generally involves waste wood, cardboard, metals, paper, glass, polymers, etc. With all this equipment, the Utique-Bizerte non-hazardous industrial waste recycling plant currently has a capacity of 1,300 tonnes per month, bringing Elec’Recyclage’s treatment capacity to 2,000 tonnes per month.
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This facility will enable Elec’Recyclage to increase its volume of recycled non-hazardous industrial waste by 40% to 8,745 metric tonnes by the end of 2023. In 2017, this volume was estimated at 6,270 metric tonnes. The Bizerte-based company is also expected to make an indirect contribution to reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2,647 tonnes a year by the end of 2023.
As part of its project, Elec’Recyclage benefited from financial support from the EBRD and the EU, which provided a loan of €1.1 million and a grant of €85,000. This funding also enabled the company to improve the working conditions of its 100 employees.
Inès Magoum
