The recycling service of Flintshire Council has won an award from Novelis, an aluminium can recycling firm, for delivering high quality discarded aluminium drink cans to the recycling firm. Novelis settled on Flintshire Council since the quality of discarded cans it had been supplying since 2004 was extremely high.
Flintshire Council’s recycling service comprises of bring sites and a kerbside collection scheme that serves sixty thousand households.
Dry recyclables are segregated into material streams at the kerbside and conveyed to a bulking warehouse, where metals are classified into steel and aluminium fractions by means of magnetic and eddy current separators.
Aluminium cans recycled by residents in Flintshire are sent to Novelis’ plant in Warrington, where they are melted and transformed into metal ingots which are used to produce new drink cans, a process that can be repeated endlessly.
This method known as ‘closed recycling loop’ conserves ninety five per cent of the energy required to manufacture aluminium from its raw constituents and cuts down on the greenhouse gas emissions by a similar amount.
Presenting the quality award, recycling business development executive Bob Meath thanked the council and residents of Flintshire for their hard work, effort and cooperation. He added that with the Flintshire council delivering aluminium cans into the Novelis system, they were ensuring that the closed recycling loop was maintained which meant that in about sixty days discarded cans would be back on the market as new cans.
On hand to receive the award was Councillor Kevin Jones, the executive member for waste management.
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