Information for local authorities and collectors
The value of used steel cans in the waste stream is approximately £117 million a year.
Tata Steel Packaging Recycling works with local authorities, waste management companies, the ferrous scrap industry and community and charity schemes to increase the amount of this steel packaging that is recovered and recycled.
Our activities include:
- Providing advice and technical information on how to recycle steel packaging.
- Offering advice on setting up and promoting recycling schemes.
- Providing recycling equipment and support for recycling initiatives nationwide.
- Recycling steel at all our steelmaking plants: every steel plant is a recycling plant.
- Generating Packaging Waste Recovery Notes (PRN's) to enable obligated companies and the UK to reach national recycling targets.
- Providing communication support for recycling schemes.
- Undertaking technical studies and strategic research to promote future steel recycling.
Contact us for advice on recycling steel packaging by emailing Garvin.Freeman@tatasteel.com.
Supplying Tata Steel
At Tata Steel we take into our plants steel packaging for recycling. To manage the intake of this scrap we have formed a number of relationships with direct delivery suppliers.
Recovery methods
There are several cost-effective ways to collect packaging steel for recycling. The variety of methods available means that steel packaging is particularly easy to collect.
Legislation
The European Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste sets recovery and recycling targets for all packaging materials and covers all types of packaging - domestic, commercial and industrial. The materials are steel, aluminium, paper, plastic, glass and wood.
Case studies
See how we have helped local authorities and waste collectors to dramatically increase the amount of steel packaging they recycle.
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