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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Offers of European secondary aluminum alloy into Japan has picked up pace this week with the euro trading against the yen at a 10-year record low of Yen 94-95 Monday, Japanese traders said Tuesday. So far this week, one Spanish producer has offered ADC12 secondary aluminum alloy at $2,095/mt CFR...
The world’s largest recycler of used aluminium cans, Novelis, has announced they will be establishing a new buying organization for the collection of used beverage cans (UBCs) which will make the company the largest UBC procurement company in North America. This follows the announcement that...
An enterprising artist is turning his trash into cash by using empty aluminium cans to create unique artworks that sell for thousands. Jeff Ivanhoe, 67, has spent more than 30 years painstakingly piecing together his 'AluMosaics'; carving cans into tiny pieces then arranging the colourful strips...
A Halethorpe-based Girl Scout troop finished seventh in a national competition by recycling thousands of aluminum cans during a 16-week campaign. As part of the Great American Can Roundup Scout/Council Challenge that began Jan. 15, members of Troop 496 collected discarded cans by placing containers...
The overall recycling rate for aluminium cans reached 66.7 per cent in 2010, according to the most recent figures published by the European Aluminium Association (EAA). For the EU 27 countries, plus EFTA nations and Turkey, the recycling rate increased by 2.4 per cent in 2010 despite an extra 2...
This month marks six months since upgrades to the Evans Landing landfill came into effect, an important milestone in terms of the community working together to dispose of waste appropriately. During 2010 and 2011, $ 2.5 million worth of upgrades were made to the 30-year-old facility, including a...
Fortrans, a producer of low-toxicity, biodegradable specialty chemicals and various other environment- related products, has introduced Safe Bright, an aluminum brightener. The product is a safe alternative to hazardous hydrofluoric acid, ammonium bifluoride and other acid products that are...
Abengoa SA (ABG) will spend $120 million on two steel-dust-waste treatment plants in Turkey and the investment could rise to $300 million if it decides to expand capacity and build an aluminum waste treatment plant. The Spanish engineering company’s Befesa Medio Ambiente SA unit will build the...
Alcoa today announced it has reached an agreement with Novelis whereby Alcoa will assume full control of the Evermore Recycling joint venture, the undisputed leader in used beverage can (UBC) recycling, effective August 31, 2012. The two companies previously were partners in the joint venture which...
Aluminum products maker Novelis said on Monday it has pulled out of a joint venture with Alcoa Inc to recycle beverage cans and will set up its own recycling business. Alcoa said it would assume full control of the Evermore joint venture effective Aug. 31. The two companies have been partners since...
It is reported that proposed reforms of the laws governing the scrap metal trade have progressed to the committee stage, after MPs voted in favor of proposals at a debate in the House of Commons on July 13th 2012. The reforms have been tabled as a Private Members Bill by Conservative backbench MP...
Visitors to Camana Bay last Saturday would have found flyers urging them to recycle aluminium cans and glass on their windshields as members of staff at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman and the Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort spread the message of recycling. The group of five, who chose recycling...
Executives at Glendale Iron & Metal, a Phoenix scrap metal business, today announced the company is accepting scrap alloys and aluminum cans. The company has been in business for more than 45 years and has become an industry leader with the best prices in town and the fastest processing time. The...
Aluminum product developer Constellium is increasing the percentage of recycled metal in the aircraft parts it produces, as it vies to lower the cost and environmental impact of using metals and to prove that composites are not the answer to everything. The French group’s latest Airware technology...
A common whinge in the Cayman Islands is the lack of recycling, but there is now a major push under way to recycle aluminium cans and glass bottles locally. The Department of Environment Health has supplied aluminium can recycling containers to apartment and condominium complexes along West Bay...
They deliver everything from deodorant to insecticide, hair spray to paint, with each household getting through 27 a year on average. And until this week the vast majority of the 6.5 million aerosols used every year in Somerset were ending up in the refuse bin and heading for landfill. But from now...
The company that handles garbage collection for most of Brevard County has started rolling out a program to reward customers for recycling more. Waste Management is offering the program through Recyclebank, a New York-based company that gives people points for their recycling efforts that can be...
Carroll County Recycling Operations has received two regional honors, but county recycling manager Maria Myers says she would like to see even more improvement in the county’s 41 percent recycling rate. Carroll County Recycling Operations received the 2012 Extraordinary Achievement Award from the...
