The British company, SYNETIQ, has maintained its pledge to recycle aluminium from its vehicles, saving enough aluminium to produce 346 million drinks cans a year.
On average, SYNETIQ extracts more than 5200 tonnes of aluminium during the vehicle recycling process each year. SYNETIQ redistributes the aluminium back into the supply chain as part of its integrated, circular recycling model.
The latest figures follow SYNETIQ’s initiative: “Our Road to Tomorrow” and their objective to fully understand their carbon emissions, to reach their goal to become a carbon neutral business.
Ray Curry, Operations Director at SYNETIQ, commented,
“We’ve invested in equipment and procedures to help us extract the maximum amount of reusable material from the vehicles we handle… Aluminium recovery is a key element of this process, as the material is 100% recyclable. That means we create new CO2 savings every time we recycle it.”
Ray Curry, Operations Director at SYNETIQ
SYNETIQ processes more than 70,000 vehicles each year, using the waste hierarchy of reduce, reuse, remanufacture and recycle to maximise the sustainability of operations.
Mr Curry adds,
“For us, recycling is always the last remaining option…Avoiding waste is our priority, so if a vehicle or part can be reused for its intended purpose in its current form, that’s the route we’ll choose.”“For us, recycling is always the last remaining option…Avoiding waste is our priority, so if a vehicle or part can be reused for its intended purpose in its current form, that’s the route we’ll choose.”
Ray Curry, Operations Director at SYNETIQ
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