Novelis expands aluminium recycling network

Leicester-based environmental charity Environ, Carlisle scrap metal merchant Mountelm Ltd and a recycler of printers lithographic plate and inks – J&G; Environmental Ltd of Dorset – have all signed up to Novelis' scheme.

Brian Mooney of Leicester-based Environ, a new member of the Novelis recycling network

Novelis now has a network of over 40 organisations that provide communities with cash for cans at their recycling centres, supplying cans for the Novelis reprocessing plant at Warrington.

As part of the Novelis network the three organisations will be linking into a range of marketing business development support programmes developed by the UK's largest aluminium reprocessor, as part of its bid to increase aluminium packaging recycling rates in the UK.

Diana Caldwell, recycling marketing and communications manager at Novelis, said: “These are three very different types of enterprises but all are playing a vital role in the UK's aluminium can recycling infrastructure.

“Their membership in the Novelis recycling network will enable us to provide co-ordinated help for their business, including access to and help with media relations, promotional support and involvement in our educational and consumer-awareness programmes,” she added.

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Environ operates a recycling centre where members of the public can take their empty aluminium drink cans and receive cash in return. It also collects waste from offices in the Leicestershire area, collecting cans, paper, cardboard, printer cartridges, plastics and mobile phones.

” These are three very different types of enterprises but all are playing a vital role in the UK's aluminium can recycling infrastructure. “
– Diana Caldwell, Novelis
J&G; Environmental Ltd has recently launched a dedicated recycling collection service for schools and businesses throughout Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. The company is also planning to open a cash for cans buyback centre at its premises in Blandford Forum.

Family run metal merchants Mountelm Ltd have been operating for 40 years and supplying Novelis with aluminium cans since the 1990s.

Under UK producer responsibility regulations, reprocessors are aiming to recycle 35.5% of the aluminium cans put on the market by obligated packaging producers by 2008. Last year reprocessors achieved a rate of just over 23%.