Products are usually made with different materials. These materials have to be separated to send the different materials to dedicated recycling installations, so that the recycling efficiency is as high as possible. Maud Rio shows in this video different separation techniques as pre-processing of the in-feed for recycling.

Associate Professor Maud Rio (PhD, 2012) is a permanent research fellow at Grenoble Alpes University G-SCOP Laboratory. She is part of the Product Process Design Team. Maud’s research includes developing models and designing methods based on the approach of integrated design to boost environmental performance of product and processes in line with emerging technologies leading to new forms of consumption and production. Maud is also a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in IUT’s Mechanical and Manufacturing Technological School of Grenoble (GMP). She is currently the course coordinator for a range of engineering topics related to sustainability, eco-design and life cycle assessment (LCA).