Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, reporting an operating profit of €5 million, compared to an operating loss of €15 million in the corresponding quarter of 2012. Net ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
New figures released by the Environment Agency this month demonstrate a year on year increase in lamp recycling rates. In 2012 the tonnage of waste lamps recycled by all Producer Compliance Schemes in the UK was 39.5 per cent of the tonnage ...
Momentum Recycling opened the doors to its new glass recycling plant in Salt Lake City. Dozens of customers, suppliers, citizens and local government officials gathered to celebrate the grand opening, the company said. Momentum ...
Tags: Glass Recycling Plant, Glass
Logistics company DHL will open some South Australian Drop Zones seven days a week between 8am and 4pm to help South Australians preparing for the digital switch on 2 April. DHL Supply Chain's five South Australian drop zones based in ...
According to the latest glass recycling industry data - published by the European Container Glass Federation (FEVE) - the average glass recycling rate in the European Union has risen above the 70% threshold for the first time. This means ...
A new industry data report has revealed that the average recycling rate of glass in the European Union (EU) rose above the 70% threshold, representing collection of over 11 million tons (mt) in 2011. The new report has been published by ...
An independent research study commissioned by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), revealed 65 percent of decision makers at Fortune 500 consumer product companies ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, steel, consumer packaged goods
The latest declared glass recycling rate in South Africa is now, according to The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC), 40.1%; a 230% growth in annual volumes recycled since the inception of TGRC six years ago. Evidence of a shift in consumer ...
The Federal Court, last month, ruled in favour of the beverage company after it argued the Northern Territory government’s 10c deposit recycling scheme – introduced in January 2012 and similar to a scheme that has been running ...
Cans Get You Cooking is a national, integrated multi-year campaign launching in February to drive center store sales by getting cans out of the pantry and onto the table. The integrated Campaign launch coincides with National Canned Food ...
Tags: National Canned Food Month, Cans Get You Cooking, February
The Steel Recycling Institute declared that the recycling rate for the world’s most recycled material steel is at an all time high of 92%. More than 85 million tonne of steel scrap was consumed by steelmaking furnaces in 2011 an ...
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The recycling rate for steel has reached an all-time high of 92%, according to a recent announcement from the Steel Recycling Institute, an industry association that promotes the recycling of all steel products. In 2011, more than 85 ...
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In 2011, the rate in Germany at which used packaging steel was recycled into new steel reached 93.9%. It exceeds the previous top rate, which was achieved in 2010, by a further 0.6 percentage points. This was the figure quoted by the ...
Tags: packaging steel, new steel, recycled, tinplate, od cans, aerosol spray cans
The American Beverage Association is honoring America Recycles Day by supporting a pilot project called "Recycle on the Go" in Palm Beach County, Florida, to increase the amount of recycled cans and bottles and decrease the amount of ...
Tags: Beverage Industry, Public Space Recycling, Space Recycling
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 3:45:13 AM U.S. demand for post-consumer recycled plastic is forecast to rise 6.5 percent per year to 3.5 billion pounds in 2016. Gains will be driven by a ...
Tags: plastic recycling, PET, HDPE, beverage bottles, thermoformed containers