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13April 2014

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Melting record for
Chinese stainless
producers

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Business
Coca-Cola
Many householders are sceptical about what happens to their recyclables after
they are collected, according to a study entitled ‘Unpacking the Household’
which was commissioned by Coca-Cola and conducted by the UK’s University
of Exeter. The six-month study observed 20 families in the UK and France found
that new thinking is needed to ‘help break bad recycling habits’ and increase
collection rates. www.cokecce.com

EREMA
Major plastics recycling machinery manufacturer EREMA has expanded its global
network of support and test centres. EREMA customers now have a total of 13
facilities at their disposal for trial runs across Austria, North America and the
Middle East. According to EREMA, the trial centres feature the world’s ‘very latest
technology thanks to the installation of the new plant generation INTAREMA’.
www.erema.at
Recycling UK
Recycling UK, Europe’s largest exporter of recovered paper, saw its overseas
shipments fall to a seven-year low in 2013. The total of 4.248 million tonnes
represented a decline of 5.4% from the 4.491 million tonnes shipped abroad in
2012. Exports of newspapers & magazines slumped 42.6% from 1.022 million
tonnes to 586 953 tonnes while overseas shipments of the high grades dropped
5.1% to 158 384 tonnes. www.recyclinguk.biz

Tecnalia
Spanish technology co-operative Tecnalia is to launch a pilot project at a number
of battery recycling plants in order to recover nickel, lithium, cobalt and lantha-
nides from scrap batteries. The project relies on standard hydrometallurgical
equipment and task-specifi c, low-cost and non-toxic ionic liquids to extract the
metals. The liquids are said to ‘require minimal or no processing to reuse them’.
www.tecnalia.com/en

AMI Consulting
Shale gas developments in the USA will signifi cantly impact growth in polyeth-
ylene (PE) fi lm usage as well as global trade in fi nished fi lm, according to a new
study from AMI Consulting. This will lead to major reduction in the cost of PE
resin in addition to reducing the energy cost of subsequent fi lm production.
www.amiplastics.com

Last year, China melted more
than 20 million tonnes of stainless steel,
with its crude production accounting for
50.5% of the global output of 40.6 mil-
lion tonnes, concludes Austria-based
Steel Market Intelligence (SMI)
Over the last three months, SMI has
conducted an in-depth analysis of the
Chinese stainless steel industry in which
it looked at the production volumes of
more than 100 plants. This reveals that
Chinese producers have reshaped the
stainless steel landscape to an even
larger extent than previously anticipat-
ed. Its total crude stainless production
climbed to 20.5 million tonnes in 2013

– up 17% from the 17.5 million tonnes
recorded in 2012 – while fi nished prod-
uct output reached 18 million tonnes for
an increase of 16% over the 15.5 million
tonnes of 2012.
According to SMI, the biggest increase
came from the Tsingshan Group, the
second-largest producer of stainless
steel in China behind state-owned
TISCO; overall, eight producers melted
more than 1 million tonnes in 2013.
Private producers contributed most of
the growth: their combined crude pro-
duction jumped 24% last year, SMI
concludes.
www.steel-intelligence.com

Extended producer responsibil-
ity (EPR) schemes for packaging and
printed paper can signifi cantly increase
recycling rates at similar costs to current
methods and can be fi nanced directly by
industry with limited impacts, according
to a new study on an American-designed
EPR recycling model. Released by non-
profi t organisation Recycling Reinvented,
the study analyses a proposed EPR model
for printed paper that is administered
and managed by industry producers and
implemented at the state level. ‘We set
out to give industry leaders, policy-mak-
ers and advocates the real data and
analysis they need to make informed
decisions on an EPR system designed for
American markets,’ says Recycling Rein-

vented’s executive director Paul Gardner.
According to the organisation, previous
results demonstrated that the proposed
EPR model is likely to increase recycling
rates with costs similar to the current
system.
In the fi nal study report, one of the most
important fi ndings for stakeholders has
to do with ‘the fees that would be
assessed on packaging materials to
fi nance the system’. The results show
that, for most materials, fees on produc-
ers ‘would be fractions of a penny per
unit’. In the case of products with high
post-consumer value and well-developed
markets, ‘producers may even receive
credits’, Recycling Reinvented notes.
www.recycling-reinvented.org

EPR can ‘significantly’
boost recycling rates

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