November 20, 2008
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Waste & Recycling Newsletter November 20, 2008 |
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US aluminium industry to recycle 75% of all cans by 2015
The Aluminum Association has announced an industry wide effort to increase the industry’s recycling rate for used aluminum beverage containers to 75% by 2015. Today, the aluminum industry recovers approximately 54% of the aluminum containers produced in the US. While aluminum cans are already the most widely recycled beverage container in the country, each year Americans still discard over 50 billion aluminum cans which end up in landfills. Recycling plays a critical role in maintaining the aluminum can as an environmentally sustainable package. Every can that is recovered ... |
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Waste to landfill continues to fall
Almost a quarter less waste was sent to landfill in 2007 compared to 2001, a new report from the Environment Agency reveals. In 2001, the year before the EU Landfill Directive came into effect in England and Wales, around 84 million tonnes of waste was sent to landfill, last year the figure stood at 65 M tonnes - a drop of 23%. The amount of waste landfilled in 2006 was 69M tonnes - with the 2007 figure showing a drop of more than 5 percent. Martin Brocklehurst, Head of External Waste Programmes at the Environment Agency, said: `Last year nearly 20 million tonnes less waste went to landfill ... |
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