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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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Aluminium Can Recycling Rate Hits Fifty Five Per Cent.
Rick Hindley, executive director from Alupro has announced that the aluminium beverage can recycling rate reached 55% in 2009. An increase from 51% in 2008.
Speaking at the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation's (Alupro's) 2010 conference titled 'Stepping up to the challenge', he said the increase from 51% in 2008 is a major achievement but that more needs to be done to grow recycling rates further.
Click here for full press release
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Aerosols helping Leeds become greener.
Leeds City Council has expanded its kerbside collections to include aerosols. It is using advertisements developed by Alupro's 'Aerofoil' programme to promote the new collections. Launched during Recycle Week the campaign includes bus shelters and Council collection vehicles.
Click here for full press release
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Packaging recycling targets 2020.
Alupro supports the setting of future packaging recycling targets, but has concluded that the proposed 70% target is not achievable, and will continue to consult with Defra.
Rick Hindley, executive director, said "We have fully considered the opportunities for boosting recycling rates given the constraints of current collection systems, together with the opportunities presented by emerging technologies. It must also be remembered that aluminium packaging is almost exclusively consumer packaging and therefore arises solely in the domestic waste stream."
Full Alupro statement March 4, 2010
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2009 Recycling rate.
The recycling rate for aluminium packaging rose 20% between 2008 and 2009, with 60,983 tonnes recycled in 2009, compared with 49,000 tonnes in 2008. Alupro executive director Rick Hindley says that while this is a pleasing result, the focus now will be on continuing the rate of progress.
"We know that targets for 2020 are going to be challenging, and are putting in place programmes of our own to address some of the key areas such as persuading more local authorities to collect aerosols and foil, and developing away from home programmes such as Every Can Counts."
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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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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).
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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.
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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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