Depending on temperature, gas atmosphere, pressure and residence time, thermal processes offer numerous options for material separation and thus resource recovery. These processes run in machines such as fractioning columns, rotary drums, fluidized beds and entrained-flow gasifiers. Key examples of these processes are the thermal decoating of packaging waste via pyrolysis to recover aluminum, the gasification of electronics scraps to recover bromine, and the combustion of wastewater sludge to recover phosphorous. For many waste and residual materials, fundamentally suitable process conditions must first be ascertained before a process can be developed or optimized. The Waste-to-Value Lab is a joint project of TU Dresden and Nagel Ingenieurbau GmbH that comprehensively pools skills and resources to make this possible.