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Some Cutting Edge Recycling Recycling cans What happens to a can after it has been tossed into a Dutch dustbin? Since 1996 it has not been allowed to dump waste in the Netherlands. All the refuse goes to one of Holland's 13 refuse treatment plants. In Holland 90% of all metal packaging is made out of steel and as such magnetic. Steel is 100% recyclable. Either before or after incineration, it is pulled out of all the other domestic waste. If this happens before incineration, it is pulled directly out of the household rubbish. If it happens afterwards, it is pulled out of the ashes after the refuse has been burned. The recycled steel is used to make new metal. In this way, almost all cans from almost every household in the country are recycled. Today's soup can may end up tomorrow as part of a bicycle or a train. Steel is one of the easiest products to recycle. That is just great but unfortunately the
Norway has an absolute scoop in the field of waste sorting and recycling. In Onsoy-Fredrikstad there is a brand-new factory where steel, glass and metal packaging can fully-automatically be sorted. As far as the environment is concerned, this is quite a positive technological development. The opening of the plant was at the same time the starting signal for a great national drive for giving waste collection a new impetus. From now on, Norwegian citizens may deposit their steel, glass and aluminium waste in one and the same container. Nice and easy and therefore very inviting. No wonder experts believe that more waste will be recycled thanks to this new factory. |
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consumer is not nearly enough aware of it. Enough reasons for Hoogovens R&D to
develop a new can-crusher. After all, a crushed can takes up less space; the can-crusher reduces the volume of metal waste with no less than 80%!. But, what is more,the can-crusher can help in promoting the
environmental-friendly image of steel. It also functions as billboard. In a clear and striking way the can-crusher communicates a message to its users: by means of magnets steel can be separated from all the other waste in no time whatsoever. As this new device is also a regular litter bin, this message will definitely be noticed. 