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Recycling steel cans
Corus has announced a rise in the amount it pays for steel cans delivered to its CanRoute collection centres . The value of steel cans has risen by £35 to £125 per tonne.
Steel is now the most recycled packaging material in Europe. It is easy to collect using kerbside collections, can banks and magnetic extraction. It is also 100 per cent recyclable, and can be recycled over and over without loss of quality. Most cans found in the home are made of steel, of which around 25 per cent is typically recycled material.
Corus is the largest steel recycler in the UK. The company runs CanRoute, a network of 14 regional steel can recycling centres for local authorities, waste collectors and community collection schemes. These centres buy steel cans collected from kerbside collections or can banks and prepare them for recycling. At the centres, steel cans are checked for quality and then baled, before being delivered to Corus to be recycled at one of its steel reprocessing sites. Since it started in June 1999, CanRoute has collected over 100,000 tonnes of domestic steel packaging for recycling. This is the equivalent of 2.5 billion cans.
