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LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
205-956-1111
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
REDESIGNED PARTS
FOR MAXIMUM
WEAR LIFE AND
COST EFFICIENCY
LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
� HAMMERS
� GRATES
� BREAKER BARS
� REJECT DOORS
LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
� HAMMERS
� GRATES
� BREAKER BARS
� REJECT DOORS
LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
� HAMMERS
� GRATES
� BREAKER BARS
� REJECT DOORS
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10 December 2012
N E W S
Battery confusion has
made UK ‘go backwards’
Inconsistency over the definition
of portable batteries has led the UK
recycling industry to ‘go backwards’
since 2008, G&P Batteries’ Managing
Director Michael Green has told letsre-
cycle.com. The battery specialist says the
disparity in interpretation between recy-
clers and producers is likely to have
skewed recent data on the sector’s recy-
cling performance.
Many in the industry still hold differing
opinions of what constitutes a portable
and industrial battery, asserts Mr Green.
‘The producers of some lead-acid bat-
teries are saying that they are selling
their batteries exclusively into industrial
applications. But the recycling sector
which is sorting them has no way of
knowing whether the application is
industrial or portable. It is the applica-
tion of the definition that is the root of
the problem.’
Recent updates by the Environment
Agency indicate that the UK achieved a
collection rate of around 32% during
the first six months of 2012. This would
mean the country is on its way meet its
obligation under the EU Battery Direc-
tive, in which the current target of col-
lecting 25% of portable batteries has
been raised to 45% by 2016.
Yet while lead-acid batteries represent
a large proportion of all the batteries
being recycled as ‘portable’, they
account for only a small amount – some
13% – of the portable batteries put on
the market. Therefore, Mr Green has seri-
ous doubts about whether the UK bat-
tery industry has improved its perfor-
mance over the past couple of years,
claiming that it has met its recycling
obligation through collecting ‘dispropor-
tionately high levels’ of lead-acid bat-
teries.
‘A word to the
wise isn’t
necessary –
it’s the stupid
ones that need
the advice.’
Quote ~ Unquote
Concentrated deposits of lead
ammunition from shooting ranges across
the USA have come under environmental
scrutiny in recent years, but according to
Lead Us Reclaim founders Gary Frase and
Bill Moss state they have developed a
process to salvage the metal.
A massive front-end loader removes the
first few inches of topsoil which is then
passed through a screening machine to
sort large particles of dirt. The company’s
patented blower system then does the
rest, filling the stacks of lead shot with air
and thus eliminating any smaller particles.
This is a most critical step, the venture’s
founders argue, as smelters do not accept
loads containing too many impurities.
‘The cleaner the material, the more
money you get,’ Mr Frase has told the
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
Online. The lead recovered at a recently-
visited trap range, for instance, would
have been worth roughly US$ 100 000,
according to latest LME cash prices.
Such a lucrative outcome is possible
because the equipment is able to ‘screen
up to sixty-thousandths of an inch’.
The two men believe they can capture
95% of the lead at any given site. In
most instances, 20-40% of the company
proceeds from sale of the reclaimed lead
are shared with the clubs that have
called upon its services.
www.leadusreclaimllc.com
Denmark-based packaging
developer Faerch Plast has created a
new type of black crystalline polyethyl-
ene terephthalate (CPET) that can be
detected by infrared sensors in recycling
streams, an innovation that will enable
recyclers to separate it from mixed plas-
tics waste for the first time.
Faerch says the unique pigment compo-
sition of the new material will enable
optical scanning equipment to recognise
it, a bigger issue for CPET than for most
other plastics. Faerch developed the
plastic, designed primarily for the food
industry, at its research and develop-
ment centre in Denmark. Tests are under
way to determine whether the material
can be mass manufactured as food trays
in the UK market.
www.faerchplast.com
Faerch provides answer
for black CPET recycling
Lead ammunition surfaces
on sustainability radar
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