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We recycle all kinds of metals and plastics
shipping them to more than 15 contries
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Joke of the Month
Business
JMC Recycling Systems
In our October issue JMC’s brand-new cat guillotine was described as a machine
that can process up to 40 catalytic converters per hour. In fact, the guillotine can
process up to 80 catalytic converters per hour, says JMC’s managing director
Phillip Pownall. www.jmcrecycling.com
Umicore
Belgium’s material technology group Umicore is to invest another Euro 100
million in its advanced precious metals recycling plant at Hoboken, thereby
boosting capacity by approximately 40%. According to Umicore, this major
fi nancial injection will allow the facility’s smelter and blast furnace to be updat-
ed to treat 500 000 tonnes of material per year. www.umicore.com
CRUK
Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK) has won a Gold Zero Waste Award in the partner-
ship category of the Zero Waste Awards 2013 organised by Letsrecycle.com.
Judges were most impressed by CRUK’s commitment to applying the waste
hierarchy to a ‘diffi cult waste stream’. The recycler’s goal for 2015 is to divert
from landfi ll some 25% of the UK’s waste carpet arisings, estimated at around
400 000 tonnes per annum. www.carpetrecyclinguk.com
Twisting the knife
Three surgeons are talking about their occupation
and start offering opinions on whom they prefer to
operate. The fi rst says: ‘I like to work on electricians.’
‘Why?’ the others ask. ‘When you open them up,
they are all colour coded so you know where
everything goes,’ he replies.
The second surgeon states: ‘I like to work on librarians.’
The others again ask for an explanation. He responds: ‘Librarians are organised
in a logical pattern.’
So the third surgeon says: ‘I like to work on lawyers.’ ‘Lawyers?’ chorus the
others in surprise. ‘But why?’ He explains: ‘Well, they are gutless, they have
no spine, and their heads and butts are interchangeable.’
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‘Protect our finite world’
Consumer goods account for
about 60% of total consumer spending,
35% of material inputs in the economy
and 75% of waste. Only 20% of them
are effectively recycled, says environ-
mental entrepreneur Ellen MacArthur.
Speaking at the Wired 2013 symposium
in London, MacArthur stressed that con-
sumers could save up to £432 billion
(US$ 700 billion) globally through a
more circular economy. This is the ulti-
mate aim of the Ellen MacArthur Foun-
dation, launched by the record-holding
British sailor in 2010.
‘Our business models are linked to a
conveyor belt system; we do recycle
some of the material, but not by design.
Instead we try to get out what we can
and make do,’ noted MacArthur. By
‘eradicating’ waste through careful con-
sideration of how to manufacture each
product, she said an industrial economy
could be achieved that was ‘restorative’
rather than a ‘semi-effective after-
thought’ that did no more than postpone
Earth’s dwindling pool of resources.
‘When you’re racing through the ocean
2500 miles away from the nearest town,
you’re completely alone. If you break a
leg or require any sort of medical atten-
tion, it will take fi ve days for someone
to get you and fi ve days for you to get
out,’ MacArthur told the audience. ‘No
experience in my life could have con-
nected me any more to the notion of
what fi nite really means.’
During one of her recent trips to meet
manufacturers and recyclers, she visited
a coal factory, where she learned that
the world’s reserves of coal would be
entirely depleted in 118 years. ‘That’s
miles more than oil, and well outside my
lifetime – perhaps there’s still time to
correct things,’ she said.
www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.
org
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