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US secondary lead
In Recycling International’s April issue, we ran a feature entitled ‘An industry
struggling to break from the past’ which focused on lead recycling in China. In
the article, it was stated that US secondary lead recovery accounted for 46%
of total lead production. However, according to the US Geological Survey’s
2006 yearbook, which is the latest available, secondary lead derived princi-
pally from scrapped lead-acid batteries accounted for some 88% of refined
lead production in the USA.
People
* Brian Baarda and Brian Johnston
Concurrent with the finalisation of its acquisition of a recycled newsprint mill
at Snowflake in Arizona, USA, Catalyst Paper Corporation has appointed Brian
Baarda as Vice-President of Operations with responsibility for newsprint, old
newspaper (ONP) procurement and recycling. Brian Johnston becomes Vice-
President of Operations with responsibility for specialty paper and pulp.
www.catalystpaper.com
* Peter Stone
The UK Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has appointed Peter
Stone as its Chairman. He will take over from WRAP’s founding chairman Vic
Cocker after an open appointment process. As a lawyer, Mr Stone was one of
three founding directors of UK investment bank Close Brothers.
www.wrap.co.uk
* Roeland Baan
Major US aluminium recycling company Aleris International has appointed Roe-
land Baan as Executive Vice President and President of Aleris Europe, reporting
to Chairman and CEO Steven J. Demetriou. The Dutchman has previously served
in key management positions at Arcelor Mittal and Thyssen Sonnenberg Recy-
cling. ‘He has a proven track record of delivering improved results and integrat-
ing multi-national organisations, and we believe he will be able to make an
immediate contribution to our European business,’ comments Mr Demetriou.
www.aleris.com
* Li Jun and Guo Xin
China Industrial Waste Management of Dalian, one of the country’s major
industrial waste management and recycling firms, has made some new senior
appointments. Mr Li Jun will serve as Chief Operating Officer after having
spent ten years as Chief Operating Officer of Dalian Dongtai, the company’s
90%-owned subsidiary. In addition, the board has appointed Ms Guo Xin as
Chief Financial Officer and also to the board of directors. She replaces current
CEO and CFO Mr Dong Jinqing.
www.dldtep.com
* Thomas Leysen and Marc Grynberg
The board of directors at Belgium-based precious metals fabrication and recy-
cling specialist Umicore has elected its current CEO Thomas Leysen as Chair-
man with effect from November 2008. His position as CEO will be taken by
Marc Grynberg who has been Umicore’s Chief Financial Officer since 2000
and Executive Vice President of the automotive catalyst business since 2006.
Current Chairman Karel Vinck has expressed his desire to retire upon reaching
the age of 70.
www.umicore.com
The Department of Business, Enterprise
and Regulatory Reform (BERR) in the
United Kingdom issued a statement
about recycling, claiming 85 percent of
any car can be re-used after scrapping.
Data released by the department
shows that car makers have managed
to hit one of the benchmarks set in the
country’s End of Life vehicles directive.
By 2015, manufacturers in the Euro-
pean Union are expected on increase
the percentage to 95.
According the BERR figures, a total of
305 000 vehicles were handed in 2006
in the United Kingdom. Altogether,
685 000 certificates of destruction were
issued in that year.
‘The news confirms car makers’ drive
to deliver in all areas of sustainability,’
comments Chief Executive of the Soci-
ety of Motor Manufacturers and Trad-
ers (SMMT), Paul Everitt. ‘Build-to-
recycle is now an integral part of the
design process. Alongside better per-
formance at manufacturing sites and
lower emissions from cars in-use,
today’s news shows that sustainability
continues to be top of the industry
agenda.’
Critics say that five years after the End
of Life Vehicle Regulation came into
force, the government has no idea if its
aims have really been realised, because
more than half of Britain’s two million
scrap cars are “going missing”, thanks
to an alleged loophole in DVLA records
and a recycling sector that the site says
is poorly policed by the Environment
Agency. It means that up to 1.1 million
cars have “vanished from the radar”,
and the government is said to be con-
cerned, and car makers and the recy-
cling industries angry.
To provide their take-back and recy-
cling service, all UK vehicle manufac-
turers joined one of the same two ser-
vice providers, Autogreen or
Cartakeback for 2006. The BERR data
comes from those two collection
schemes, but they account for only
about 260 of more than 1 200 Auto
Treatment Facilities (ATFs) across the
UK and it is this remaining 940 who
are likely overall to fail the 85% recy-
cling target. Figures are expected to be
released shortly but the Department is
expecting a level of about 83-84%, up
on earlier calculations of 81%.
UK car makers hit
recycling targets
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