In an interview with letsrecycle.com published today, John May, manager of Corus Steel Packaging Recycling said that operators need to view the plants more as “resource plants” and maximise their potential for materials recovery.
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“I think managers of MBT facilities and future MBT facilities should think about marketability of the products they can get from the process. They need to think of the plant as a resource plant, and not just a cheap alternative to landfill,” he said.
He added that EfW operators were failing to cash in on the value of clean steel packaging recovery. “There is still about 35% of ash per tonne of material we get from energy-from-waste plants. It would be ideal if new technology plants for EfW could put a clean-up facility on the back end.”
Then he said, they could take advantage of the fact that Corus will offer about 75 for a tonne of clean cans, compared to about 20 for dirty.
Click here for the full interview with John May, manager of Corus Steel Packaging Recycling.
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