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Print articleIn its report 'Leading in Recycling', Corus wants to demonstrate to the packaging industry how Corus' PRN funds have been invested to help boost steel packaging recycling rates to a record level of 57.3%.
Packaging chain companies are obliged to purchase Packaging Recovery Notes as evidence that their legal responsibility to recover and recycle quantified tonnages of packaging has been fulfilled. PRNs are sold by accredited recycling operators like Corus, either to an obligated company or to a compliance scheme acting on their behalf.
In 2006, Corus invested PRN funds in a number of areas to facilitate and enhance the collection and recovery of steel packaging. Examples of some of the achievements detailed in the report include:
1. More than 32 projects and 53 local authorities benefited from Corus' investment of PRN funding in 2006
2. CanRoute celebrated its seventh anniversary, diverting more than 145,000 tonnes of domestic steel packaging from landfill since it was established in 1999
3. 47,000 tonnes of steel were recovered via CanRoute in 2006 ? a 31% increase on 2005
4. PRN funds were used to undertake trials and research at Corus' Port Talbot plant with a view to using more can scrap in the BOS (Basic Oxygen Steelmaking) process, meaning that more scrap could be collected for recycling purposes
5. Corus re-launched its educational online resource, the Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau ? www.scrib.org
Corus' PRN report also looks at what the company hopes to achieve in 2007 as David Williams, manager of Corus Steel Packaging Recycling, explained:
?With the UK's steel packaging recycling rate already surpassing the 2008 target of 54% set by the UK Government two years early, the challenge now is to continue this momentum.
?Our priorities are to maintain record recycling levels for steel, and to ensure that as many people as possible recognise that steel is a safe, sustainable and successful packaging medium. The strategic application of PRN funds will help to ensure that our previous achievements in this field continue, demonstrating to our customers and the packaging industry as a whole, our commitment to investing in the future of steel packaging recycling.?
