Yorwaste Recycling, North Yorkshire

Yorwaste Recycling recovers over 80 tonnes of empty aluminium drink cans every year from its kerbside recycling activities, which cover nearly 100,000 households in the York and North Yorkshire area.

Novelis Recycling has provided a new Eddy Current Separator to assist in the recovery of aluminium cans as volumes increase. The equipment, funded by PRN revenue, has been provided as part of Novelis Recycling's ongoing support for aluminium packaging collection infrastructure in the UK. Providing a positive sort for aluminium cans, the ECS enables Yorwaste to supply Novelis with good quality cans, in line with the company's specification for supply.

The new equipment has been installed at Yorwaste's Materials Recycling Facility at Hessay, near York. Novelis has also provided displays and marketing materials for the company's education area, also located at Hessay.

The investment in can processing equipment is part of Novelis Recycling's continuing support for the UK's developing aluminium can collection infrastructure.