5January/February 2016
January/February 2016, No.1
Aluminium major Hydro stepping up its recycling
Does the Circular Economy package deliver for recyclers?
Dr Valerie Shulman: ‘Negative focus on tyres must be revised!’
The fi ght for aluminium
scrap
Sections
3 Viewpoint
6 News
14 Products
45 Events calendar
47 Beck’s – the Manfred Beck
column
50 Next issue
Markets
32 Ferrous
36 Nickel & stainless
38 Non-ferrous
42 Paper & textiles
44 Plastics
Hurrah for Hydro’s
recycling strategy
By the year 2020, aluminium producer Hydro aims to
have more than doubled its post-consumer scrap recy-
cling volumes. However, the company underlines that
recycled aluminium alone will not satisfy light metal
demand in the long term.
Interview:
Dr Valerie Shulman
‘Unfortunately, the EU government has not followed
through on its intentions by offering financial incentives
for recyclers, nor has it been at
the forefront of green
pub l i c p rocurement
programmes,’ says Dr
Valerie Shulman of the
European Tyre Recycling
Association.
Opening up the Circular
Economy package
The European Commission launched its long-awaited
Circular Economy package in early December amid much
fanfare. But what does the recycling industry think of it?
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The fight for aluminium scrap / 16
e automotive and beverage can industries in particular are looking increas-
ingly to in-house and closed-loop scrap, it emerged during Metal Bulletin’s
23rd Recycled Aluminium Conference held recently in the Spanish capital
Madrid. But closed-loop systems are not universally regarded as the only
way, or even the desirable way, forward.
Coverstory
Breakthrough: 100%
recyclable biopolymer
Colorado State University in the USA has created a fully
recyclable and biodegradable polymer. Researchers hope
that this discovery will pave the way to ‘truly sustainable,
petroleum-free plastics’.
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December 2015, No.10
Poland enters next
recycling phase
Asia’s unquenchable
hunger for
containerboard
Increased materials
complexity taxes
technology innovators
A fi tting farewell
for two BIR icons
Saving yachts
from marine
graveyards
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November 2015, No.9
Industry faces
diminishing margins
and rising costs
Paper exporter
Wade Schuetzeberg:
‘China will come out
stronger’
Safety: scrap yard can
still be a deadly place
to work
Attero dialling in
on India’s e-scrap
challenge
BIR meets in Prague:
Struggling
through
tough times
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