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Axion director Keith Freegard frequently uses the adjective ‘clever’ when
discussing the multi-million-pound Shredder Waste Advanced Processing
Plant built not so far from the Old Trafford home of English footballing
giant Manchester United. A joint project between privately-owned metal
recycling firm S. Norton & Co. and process engineering specialist Axion, it
has set lofty recycling benchmarks for automotive shredder residue (ASR),
as Recycling International discovered.
Sections
3 Viewpoint
6 News
19 Products
47 In the laboratory: rPET quality
60 Events Calendar
63 Beck’s – the Manfred Beck
column
66 Next issue
Markets
48 Ferrous
52 Nickel & stainless
54 Non-fer rous
58 Paper & textiles
And also…
41 The future of furniture
recycling
42 Hard-to-recycle paper
44 Steinert’s separation solutions
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A sneak preview of the fi rst-ever edition of an annual
magazine dedicated to new and existing recycling tech-
nologies from around the world: Recycling Technology is
to be released in October.
Coming soon…
Recycling Technology
Scrap fl ows and volumes in Greece have been shrinking
by 20-30% per annum for the past six years. And the
latest capital controls enforced by the EU have only made
things worse, lament Greek recyclers.
A Greek recycling
tragedy…
30
Industry specialists at the recent Plasticity Forum in Por-
tugal talked about ‘attacking’ obvious plastic waste hot
spots, recycling schemes at US hospitals, and also anti-
plastics sentiment.
Solving the plastics
puzzle
32
‘Prices of textiles are still continuing to fall, although
perhaps not at the rate they were a year or two back,’
reports UK textiles recycling expert Alan Wheeler. And
yet, he argues that the UK’s recycling sector is ‘ahead of
the curve’ compared to most European countries.
Interview:
Alan Wheeler
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August 2015, No.6
Raising scrap ratios
China’s ‘new normal’?
Ship owners turn screw
on South Asia
Professor Ernst Worrell:
‘Leaving a recycling
legacy’
Making the best out
of ELV minerals
It’s time to
adjust the sails
Captains of copper say:
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