12 January | 2017
updates
recyclinginternational.com
IKEA to buy 150-plus balers for
its growing scrap volumes
Homeware giant IKEA aims to recycle over
90% of the waste from its own operations
by 2020, according to the company’s lat-
est sustainability report.
In fiscal year 2016, the company gener-
ated 560 650 tonnes of waste via its
operations worldwide, of which 88% was
recycled or incinerated for energy recov-
ery. It achieved an 80% recycling rate in
retail, 81% in distribution centres and
80% in its furniture production division
IKEA Indus-
try. By August
2020, the com-
pany is aiming
to achieve 90%
materials recycling or energy recovery
from its operations, with 80% coming
from its stores and distribution centres.
Meanwhile, the objective will be for 90%
materials recycling of the waste from IKEA
Industry.
To handle its rapidly-growing scrap vol-
umes more efficiently and to reduce trans-
port costs, IKEA is continuing to invest in
equipment. The company is planning to
introduce ‘more than 150 balers’ across
16 countries by 2019.
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“Love will find a way through
paths where wolves fear to prey.”
-Lord Byron
Shipbreaking in Pakistan: 33
workers killed in three months
Five workers have been killed in yet another accident at a
shipbreaking yard in Gadani, Pakistan, after a fire broke out
on board the beached vessel Gazfountain owing to a ‘chemi-
cal foam’ that should have been removed.
The incident follows an explosion in November last year at
another Gadani yard involving an oil tanker beached for recy-
cling and in which 27 workers were killed. Furthermore, a
man died recently in an incident at another yard.
‘We wonder how many lives must be lost before the govern-
ment cracks down on the appalling working conditions,’
comments Patrizia Heidegger, executive director of the NGO
Shipbreaking Platform. ‘It is shameful for both the ship
owner and the cash buyer to benefit from a situation in which
workers’ lives are risked to maximise profits. We ask ship
owners to ensure that their end-of-life ships are dismantled in
clean and safe ship recycling facilities off the beach.’
After the November disaster, Pakistan’s government halted
work at shipbreaking yards and several key industry figures
were arrested. However, the yards were soon allowed to return
to business.
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