metal recycling
Leeds City Council encourages residents to ‘Foil in Love’ with recycling
Almost 14,000 residents across Roundhay and Moortown in Leeds, UK, are being inspired to ‘Foil in Love’ with recycling, as part of a new campaign launched by Leeds City Council, run in partnership with Alupro.
Every Can Counts announces latest beverage brand partnership
Every Can Counts’ new partnership will see Pernod Ricard UK collaborate with the not-for-profit programme alongside drink can manufacturers and the wider recycling industry, to raise awareness of the importance of recycling.
More UK residents encouraged to recycle metal packaging
A new campaign promoting metal packaging recycling has been introduced by RECAP, the waste partnership between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in the UK, in a bid to improve kerbside recycling rates.
Charity in metal
A resident of York in the UK has raised more than £16,000 over the past ten years, for a charity aiding the personal development of young people with disabilities, by collecting and selling used metal packaging.
Novelis opens recycling centre in South Korea
Novelis has announced a new aluminium recycling centre with an annual capacity of 100,000 tons, set to be completed in 2024.
Alupro & Suffolk Waste Partnership launch campaign
Homeowners across the UK’s Suffolk region are being encouraged to recycle their food and drinks cans, aluminium wrapping foil and foil trays, empty aerosols and metal screw tops, in a bid to improve kerbside recycling rates.
Recycling Refunds Work
Alongside the launch of a new Recycling Refunds Work website in the US, The Aluminium Association has released the results of its public opinion poll, which found a significant 81 per cent of Americans supporting recycling refund programmes.
Alupro launches UK Aerosol Recycling Initiative
The new cross-industry initiative will help increase the awareness and uptake of aerosol recycling among the public and drive increased recycling rates across the UK.
Rio Tinto invests in new aluminium recycling centre
Rio Tinto has announced an investment of US$29 million (C$35 million) to build a new aluminium recycling facility at its Arvida Plant in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec.
CMI publishes aluminium beverage can recycling primer and roadmap
The Can Manufacturers Institute roadmap explains how the ambitious US aluminium beverage can recycling rate targets that CMI members announced in November 2021 will be achieved.
Ball Corporation and Arsenal FC launch new series on recycling
Arsenal football club defenders are starring in a new social media video featuring drinks can-based trick shots, to promote aluminium recycling.
Ball and Manna Capital Partners to broaden access to US aluminium can sheet production & recycling
The alliance will see Ball entering into a long-term supply agreement, with Manna constructing and operating a state-of-the-art aluminium can sheet rolling mill and recycling centre in Los Lunas, New Mexico.
Aluminium packaging recycling sees record year in 2021
According to annual data published by the Environment Agency, the UK’s aluminium packaging recycling rate was a record 68% in 2021, with more than 156,000 tonnes collected for recycling.
Alupro launches Aluminium Manifesto
Alupro recently unveiled its Aluminium Manifesto at an exclusive virtual roundtable, which brought together leading parliamentary groups to discuss the national transition towards a circular economy.