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News about aluminium recycling
Stories generated by Alupro click through to press releases, with thumbnail pictures where appropriate. These pictures are available as high-res jpegs. Simply email info@alupro.org.uk quoting the reference.
Other stories have been derived from a variety of news sources, and are for interest only. Alupro is not responsible for the content of these items.
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Last chance to enter Alupro’s £10,000 Love where you Live photo competition,
with entries closing on February 28, and shortlisted entries judged at an exhibition at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on April 14. The exhibition runs from April 9 to 28, so start planning your visit to see pictures from across the UK which show how people care about their local landscapes, and what they’re doing to look after it.
More than 3,000 entries have been received to date, with the winner standing to win £3,750. www.lovewhereyoulive.org.uk 1/2/10
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Prices for used drinks cans have returned to pre-recession levels, with Novelis now paying £800 per tonne for loose cans, and £850 for baled or densified cans.
www.letsrecycle.com 25/1/10
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Novelis has increased the price paid for recovered aluminium cans to £700 for loose cans and £750 for baled or densified cans, reflecting the strength of the aluminium price on the London Metal Exchange and strong demand for high quality aluminium cans at the company's Warrington plant. National manager Andy Doran says that it is the company's 'ambition' to increase both the volume and percentage of material sourced from the UK.
For a New Year round-up of the industry's plans to meet the challenge of expected higher recycling targets visit www.letsrecyle.co.uk 11/1/10.
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Launch of photo competition. A new photo competition to help boost recycling activity across the UK is offering £10,000 worth of prizes for the best pictures of wildlife, and people looking after their local environment. The competition is receiving editorial support from 36 regional daily and weekly newspapers in the Trinity Mirror group, as well as Keep Britain Tidy's Big Tidy Up campaign and Eco-Schools.
The Love where you live photo competition is sponsored by not for profit recycling organisation Alupro to celebrate the quarter of a million trees they have grown in the UK and Africa because more and more people recycle their aluminium drinks cans and foil - a tree for every tonne recycled.
Click here for Alupro press release
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Alupro grows 250,000 trees. Recyclers of aluminium drinks cans and clean foil have caused a massive quarter of a million trees to be grown in the UK and Africa since 2004, thanks to a programme run by not for profit organisation, Alupro.
A tree is grown for every tonne of aluminium recycled, with the recycling rate now 57% higher than when the programme started (35,900 tonnes in 2004 to 54,656 tonnes recycled in the 12 months to end-June 2009).
Click here for Alupro press release
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New drive to recycle aerosols and foil. A new initiative to encourage all local authorities to collect empty aerosols and clean aluminium foil alongside food and drink cans is being launched this autumn. The first phase of the plan will be to talk to local authorities and waste management companies about the reprocessing opportunities for mixed cans, aerosols and foil, as well as the higher value routes for cans with aerosols, and separate clean foil. The initiative will be supported by a local communications programme, with a national consumer campaign to be launched by Unilever next year.
Click here for Alupro press release
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The recycling industry has expressed surprise at strong packaging recovery figures, especially for glass, for quarter three of 2009 and claims that the UK is on track to meet its targets.
Alupro executive director Rick Hindley said that aluminium figures were encouraging despite initial concerns that there would be a fall in demand for recovered materials driven by the economic slowdown. He said that "we are significantly ahead of where we were this time last year" and "the volume required is very modest and should easily be achieved". www.mrw.co.uk 3/11/09
Aluminium tonnes recycled 2009
Source: Environment Agency |
| Carryover from 2008 |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Target 2009 |
| 2,237 |
13,530 |
16,511 |
17,626 |
55,548 |
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Defra to consult on new packaging recycling targets. Environment minister Dan Norris has announced plans to consult on new packaging recycling targets in the next few months in a bid to catapult the UK into the "champions league" of Europe...
Pointing to initiatives such as the Every Can Counts campaign designed by beverage can producers to get more cans out of the waste stream and Unilever's sponsorship of projects to help councils to collect more aerosols, Mr. Norris added that he wanted to see more direct action taken by producers. www.letsrecycle.com 23/10/09
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Novelis raises price for recovered aluminium cans. Metal supplier Novelis has upped the price is pays for recovered aluminium cans by £75, following a £75 price cut in August. The Warrington-based company will pay £600 per tonne for delivered baled cans and £550 per tonne for loose cans.
The decision to raise the price reflects the overall price hikes in aluminium and will hopefully sustain supply, the company said. www.packagingnews.co.uk 3/11/09
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