The residents of two Surrey councils are benefiting from more efficient steel packaging recycling as a result of a new initiative between Corus and Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Europe.
Until recently Abitibi-Consolidated, which collects recyclable marerials from 70,000 households on the behalf of Runnymede and Spelthorne councils, had to send some mixed steel and aluminium cans to a materials recycling facility (MRF) outside the local area whenever its own machinery could not cope. But now Corus has provided Abitibi-Consolidated’s waste processing contractor, based in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, with a short feed conveyor, enabling up to 500 tonnes of steel packaging per year to be processed at this depot in preperating for recycling.
David Jaffa, national operation manager for Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Europe, said: ‘The fact that we can now process all the steel packaging that we collect so close to source means that our operations are more streamlined. It makes better sense both economically and environmentally to process the recovered steel packaging locally.’

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