luminium can recycling rate in the UK increased by four per cent last year, it has been revealed.
Recycling trade body Alupro found that 55 per cent of all aluminium cans were recycled, compared to 51 per cent in 2008, reports letsrecycle.com.
The news will be warmly received by the industry as the continued growth in recycling will spark more demand for machinery.
Alupro chief executive Rick Hindley claimed the figures are very encouraging but said rates have to increase further in order to meet government targets.
He said: “We have to recognise we work in a system that isn’t perfectly suited to our needs, so we have set ourselves a 65 per cent target by 2020.”
Overall recycling packaging rates have risen from less than two per cent in 1989 to 41 per cent in 2009.
“Aluminium packaging recycling has come a long way in the last 21 years,” Mr Hindley added.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the recycling includes; conveyors – screw conveyors – chain conveyors – belt conveyors
Andy Parsons
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