Aluminium scrap: This week, China's aluminium scrap market price centre edged up alongside primary aluminium. As of September 10, SMM A00 aluminium prices closed at RMB 24,560 per tonne, up RMB 210 per tonne from RMB 24,350 per tonne last Thursday. Domestic aluminium scrap prices followed with...
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The Beijing-based China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Recycling Metal Branch (CMRA) says data released by China Customs shows that in June 2014 China imported 3.7 million tons of scrap commodities, including metal, paper and plastic scrap. The value of the 350,000 tons of “unwrought...
At one time, recycling was largely to be found in developed nations. But the latest June 2014 research from Waste Industry Sales Monitor indicates that the environmental and cash benefits of materials recovery is taking root across the world. AcuComm has identified 20 new or upgraded recycling...
Newell Recycling of Georgia LLC, headquartered in East Point, Georgia, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with the scrap metal recycling firm Blaze Recycling & Metals LLC, Norcross, Georgia. The combined company will be called Newell Recycling Southeast. The deal is subject to customary...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced today a new nonferrous specification has been published in the Scrap Specifications Circular 2014. Approved by the ISRI nonferrous division and board of directors, the new specification states that, “Thorn—Aluminum Breakage shall consist...
The Scholz Holding GmbH has announced the sale of its aluminum and stainless steel business. The scrap metal company, based in Essingen, Germany, had earlier announced plans to sell off the businesses that it considered noncore assets as a step in the process to realign and restructure the company....
BCC Research, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, says about $103 billion in recycling-related economic activity occurred in China in 2013, down slightly from $107.5 billion in 2012. In its newly released report, Recycling Markets in China, the research firm forecasts China's recycling market will...
Recycling has been mandatory for years but it hasn’t stopped people from accidentally or intentionally tossing aluminum cans, glass bottles and other recycled materials in with the household garbage. Business Administrator Sean Canning and Public Works Director Tim Quinn think they have a solution...
“Urban Mining” is gaining in importance in the aluminium industry. The recycling ratios in application industries such as automotive or construction have meanwhile reached about 95 percent, and more than 60 percent in packaging. The potential and the technical possibilities of recycling will be...
Chinook has partnered with European Metal Recycling to develop a world-leading recycling and energy-from-waste plant, now commissioning in Oldbury, West Midlands. The plant, which has a negative carbon footprint of more than 57,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year, is the first of three being...
Empty beverage cans from abroad can now be returned to practically any recycling machine in Finland, whether you get a cash return for them or not. Cans should not wind up as mixed waste, bottle recycling company- Palpa, says. A representative of the bottle and can recycling company says that...
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, estimated today that thirsty soccer fans in Brazil will push sales of aluminum beverage cans past the two billion mark over the four weeks of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, representing a 35 percent increase over the same period last year. This...
EU countries will face tougher recycling targets and a ban on burying recyclable waste in landfills under plans presented by the European Commission. The proposals are part of the Commission’s Waste Targets Review, which includes updated recycling targets of 70 percent of household waste and 80...
The North American Aluminum scrap prices ended marginally higher on ScrapMonster Price Index as on July 8th, Tuesday. 1100 Scrap prices moved higher by $0.01 per Lb. The prices of 3003 Scrap too increased $0.01 per Lb. A similar up move of $0.01 per Lb was witnessed in 356 Aluminum Wheels, 5052...
The decision by the European Commission to split the proposed non-ferrous and ferrous 2030 packaging targets will lead to extra cost, according to the European Aluminum Association (EAA). Under the proposals published by the European Commission last week, 80 per cent of packaging will need to be...
Summer sees many people snapping open a can for a long cool drink. That seasonal thirst causes many non-redeemable aluminum cans – many of them from Estonia -- to end up in mixed waste bins. Mixed waste from the capital region most often ends up in Vantaa’s new waste treatment facility – and that’s...
The European Aluminium Association (EAA) has welcomed the European Commission's efforts to strengthen the EU’s waste policy framework as an important step forward in its transition to a circular economy. In this same context, the body is also calling for achievable recycling targets and accurate...
The City of Santa Clara is considering citywide automatic curbside recycling. If the majority of citizens indicate through an online survey that they want the program, officials say the city will move forward with the plan. If approved, all residents will be signed up for the service, but they will...
Revenue for the Nonferrous Metal Recycling industry is forecast to grow strongly over the five years to 2014, rising at an annualized rate of 12.1% to $19.0 billion, said IBISWorld Industry. “As research continues to demonstrate the energy efficiencies and cost benefits of using recycled metals in...
