White Goods Shredder Residue

Automotive shredder residue gets the most attention, but it is only part of the picture. White goods and brown goods — washing machines, refrigerators, cookers and consumer electronics — are shredded through the same machines and leave behind their own mixed residue.

Because appliances carry more glass, insulation and mineral material than a typical vehicle, their residue leans different in composition. But the challenge is the same: a heterogeneous mix of plastics, glass, foam and fibres with residual metals that sorting struggles to recover.

One Line, Mixed Feedstocks

Klean’s automotive-shredder-residue reference plant takes residue from shredder lines processing both cars and white and brown goods — the output of a whole shredding ecosystem feeding a single gasification facility. That breadth is the point: the process does not demand a single, consistent feed, it accepts the mixed residue whatever the mix of retired products happens to be.

The flexibility extends further. The same plant has co-treated sewage sludge, waste plastics, sealed hospital waste and bone meal alongside shredder residue, demonstrating that a gasification line can absorb a shifting municipal and industrial waste profile rather than requiring a dedicated, uniform feedstock.

Shared Residue, Shared Route

The lesson for a shredder operator is that vehicle residue and appliance residue are not separate problems needing separate solutions. They are the same class of mixed, energetic, mineral-bearing material — and they can be recovered on the same thermal process.

Learn More About Mixed Residue Processing

• Automotive Shredder Residue Gasification Plant
• Solid Waste Recycling
• What Is Gasification?
• Turn-Key EPC Delivery

Partner With The KleanTeam to Process Your Whole Residue Stream

Safe. Clean. Profitable. One Proven Partner.

Whether your shredder processes cars, appliances or both, Klean Industries can recover metals, energy and aggregate from the combined residue — as proven by a reference plant that runs mixed vehicle and white-goods residue at commercial scale.

Klean’s Key Advantages:

• ✅ An operating ASR gasification reference plant fed by five shredder plants.
• ✅ Thirty-plus years engineering commercial gasification and waste-to-energy plants.
• ✅ 3 recovered carbon black (rCB) plants built in India over the past 2 years.
• ✅ KleanLoop blockchain provides end-to-end feedstock traceability.

Ready to recover value from appliance shredder residue?

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