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The Recycling of Steel: An Optimised Process Ensuring Sustainability
Author            :Phillippe Wolper      Contact The Author
Designation    :Managing Director
Company        :The Association of European Producers
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The recycling of steel, an optimised process insuring sustainability Background and context
  • The European Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive of 1994, recently revised in 2004, sets new, even more challenging and differentiating, recycling targets for all packaging materials. In this new legal frame, metals have to achieve a 50% recycling rate in 12 European countries by 2008. In the following 3 countries, Portugal, Ireland and Greece, the same target of 50% will have to be reached, but only by 2010. The new accession countries will also have to comply with European law and invest massively in collection systems to be able to do so.
  • On the other hand, Europe stresses more and more the importance of sustainable development for future generations. The debate is indeed moving towards a more global and transversal appraisal of the issues our society is faced with. CO2 emissions, as well as more broadly, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be reduced.

    • In this context, how does steel in general and steel packaging in particular contribute positively through its recycling process to this common goal of sustainability ?

    Does recycling help improve the environmental profile of steel packaging?
    How is steel packaging positioned against other competing materials in the recycling race?
    What are the European performances of steel packaging recycling as compared to that of other competing materials?
    Is steel recycling self supporting? How does the scrap supply & demand market work?
    Does it also work for steel packaging, specifically?
    How does steel recycling contribute to sustainability?
    The answers we will give on all of these questions will be illustrated by appropriate graphs and data sheets when required.
    The structure of this paper will be based on 6 key chapters:
    • The global steel closed loop recycling system,
    • The scrap processing chain
    • The achievements of steel packaging recycling in Europe
    • The environmental advantages of the steel recycling process
    • The economics of the recycling process
    • Why does the recycling of steel insure sustainability?
    Philippe Wolper,
    Managing Director of APEAL
    13th September 2004.

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