Did you know?
Recycling aluminium uses only around five per cent of the energy and emissions needed to make it from the raw material bauxite. Aluminium can be recycled indefinitely without losing any of its properties, getting the aluminium recycling habit is one of the best things we can do for the environment.
Reuse
Aluminium containers and foil can be cleaned and reused. Saucepans and household items may be donated to charity shops or taken to local authority recycling centres where they can be sold on to a scrap metal merchant.
Recycle
You can recycle aluminium cans in your orange sack, however they do not collect foil at present.
Contacts
Aluminium Federation
www.alfed.org.uk
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Association (ALUPRO), 1 Brockhill Court, Brockhill Lane, Redditch, B97 6RB UK
t: 01527 597757 f: 01527 594140
www.alupro.org.uk
Novelis
www.thinkcans.net
British Metals Recycling Association, 16 High Street, Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4TU
t: 01480 455249 f 01480 453680
info@recyclemetals.org
www.recyclemetals.org
A trade association for the metals recycling industry.
Can Makers Information Service
New Bridge Street House, 30-34 New Bridge Street, London EC4V 6BJ
t: 0207 072 4083 f 0207 072 4020
canmakers@gciuk.com
www.canmakers.co.uk
Provides information on the can manufacturing industry, together with data on recycling, resource management and energy saving.
NCPEN (Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment)
SoanePoint, 6-8 Market Place, Reading, Berkshire RG1 2EG
t 0118 925 5991 f 0118 925 5993
info@incpen.org.uk
www.incpen.org
Information and advice on packaging and sustainable development.
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