Company achieves 49 percent recycled aluminum inputs and has doubled its recycling capacity since 2010. Atlanta-based aluminum rolling and recycling company Novelis has published its 2015 sustainability report, detailing what it says is significant progress toward increasing recycled aluminum use and using natural resources more efficiently. At the end of fiscal 2015, the company…
Jan. 23 e-waste recycling event is free and hosted by Tekserve. Tekserve, a leading provider of technology solutions for creative professionals based in New York, has announced its next e-waste Electronics Recycling Event in New York for Saturday, Jan. 23. The free event, co-hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center (Ecology Center), will…
Ferrous volumes declined 21 percent, while average ferrous metal margins declined by 19 percent relative to the corresponding period in fiscal 2015. Irving, Texas-based Commercial Metals Co. (CMC) has announced financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2016, ended Nov. 30, 2015. Net earnings attributable to CMC for period were $25.1 million (21 cents…
Our technology expert gives readers a complete look at a separation method that is growing in usage at MRFs around North America. BY ROGER GUTTENTAG Rutger Zweers, director of sales for equipment manufacturer Stadler America, the ballistic separation idea was first developed by Germany-based Stadler as a sorting solution in Europe for recyclable and waste…
North America Newsletter July 2015 Pellenc ST America installs 10 machines at PET recycling plant in N.C. Pellenc ST North America recently finished installation of 10 Mistral optical sorters for a double PET sorting line (11 tons per hour) in NC, to upgrade an existing facility. The facility produces recycled PET flake (RPET) from…