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Umicore/SimsMM
Belgian recycler Umicore has been heralded as the most sustainable company
by Canadian media, research and fi nancial products company Corporate Knights.
Announcing its top 100 ‘green’ businesses at the 2013 World Economic Forum
in Switzerland, it also confi rmed that Sims Metal Management (SimsMM) ranked
15th on its list. Umicore was recognised for its ‘top-to-bottom transformation’
from traditional mining company into innovative technology fi rm that ‘operates
at the frontier of metallurgy, chemistry and materials science’.
www.umicore.com and www.simsmm.com
MicroGREEN Polymers
What was intended as a quick visit to purchase some of MicroGREEN’s recy-
clable cups for the Angel of the Winds Casino ended up with a US$ 5 million
investment in the Washington-based plastics recycling company, says Koran
Andrews, ceo of the Stillaguamish Tribal Enterprise Corporation. The Indian tribe
especially applauds that the InCycle cups comprise 50% PET derived from
recycled water bottles. www.microgreeninc.com
Recovinyl
Roughly 1.25 million PVC-U post-consumer window frames are being recycled
in the UK every year through Recovinyl, the PVC industry’s recycling scheme.
Latest audited fi gures show that end-of-life windows and profi les comprised
25 480 tonnes (52%) of the total 48 544 tonnes of PVC recycled in 2011. The
volume of frames recycled are enough to replace windows for around 122 000
houses and fl ats. www.axionconsulting.co.uk
Textile Recycling Association
The UK’s Textile Recycling Association (TRA) has celebrated its 100th anniver-
sary at the Houses of Parliament in London. Member of Parliament Tracey Crouch
hosted a special event at which she praised TRA for its efforts on many fronts,
including moves to tackle the issue of theft from door-to-door and clothing bank
collections – a scourge which ‘costs charities millions of pounds’ in lost revenue
year after year and ‘threatens the economic viability’ of collection businesses.
www.textile-recycling.org.uk
Western Australia (WA) has been
labelled the country’s ‘worst mainland
state for recycling’ in a report released
by the Boomerang Alliance and the Con-
servation Council of West Australia. It
recycles nearly 40% less than the nation-
al average while generating strikingly
more waste per capita than any other
mainland state, the groups conclude.
Their report states: ‘Perth is rapidly running
out of landfill space. The state has an
appalling and growing litter problem.
Recyclers continue to go broke. The com-
munity continues to pay more for waste
and recycling services for little or no result.’
It also underlines that, according to
2011 data, only 686 861 of the 960 717
homes in Western Australia are covered
by municipal recycling services – ‘mean-
ing that over a quarter (28.5%) of the
WA population are denied access to
recycling’. The two groups declare this
to be ‘a serious failure’, particularly
because other parts of Australia boast
almost 100% recycling service access.
The Boomerang Alliance and the Conser-
vation Council of West Australia are urg-
ing the government to adopt a container
deposit scheme; citing poll results from
January, they state that such a proposal
met with ‘overwhelming’ public interest,
with almost 90% of respondents voicing
their support for such a scheme and
86.5% saying they would be willing to
pay a 10 cents deposit refundable on the
return of the container.
According to the report, one of the major
reasons why Western Australia’s recycling
performance ‘lags behind’ is the scarcity
of ‘conveniently located’ collection facili-
ties where consumers can drop off their
problem wastes like paint tins, electronics,
fridges, used tyres and batteries.
www.boomerangalliance.org.au
Ukraine prepares for waste
treatment make-over
Around 36 billion tonnes of waste
has been accumulated in Ukraine, with
only around 30% of industrial waste
and 4% of household refuse being
recycled, according to the nation’s Ecol-
ogy and Natural Resources Ministry.
Only 75% of households have access to
waste collection services, thus allowing
‘the formation of illegal landfi lls’ which
are frequently overloaded and deemed
ecologically unsafe, it says. The ministry
estimates that the volume of hazardous
waste present at these sites exceeds 1.5
billion tonnes. In response, the govern-
ment has approved the concept of a state
waste treatment programme for the
period 2013-2020, with the elimination
of the most environmentally unfriendly
facilities containing toxic waste slated for
2013-2015. Pilot projects will also be
established relating to the construction of
landfi lls, while facilities will be created to
recycle and sterilise waste.
Source: Kyiv Post
Western Australia’s
‘serious’ recycling failure
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