National Newsbrief

The Chartered Institution of Waste Management (CIWM) is the professional body which represents waste professionals in the UK and overseas. The awards annually recognise and reward environmental excellence in the fast moving consumer goods industry.

Editorial

APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging brings you its latest insight into the issues impacting steel packaging across Europe today.

A Green revolution

“The start of a green industrial revolution”, was how Gerben- Jan Gerbrandy described the mind shift taking place within our society on the importance of waste management “because of consumers, legislation and most importantly, resource scarcity”.

Steel Recycling 2010: Efficiency, not deposits

There is no clear quantifiable link between deposit systems and high recycling rates for metal packaging and it has long been the view of APEAL that greater recycling efficiency is ensured by other means.

ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein and CSR – a long-standing tradition

ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein's history goes back to 1760 when the company was founded by Heinrich Wilhelm Remy. In the following years, ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein made a name for itself in Andernach-Neuwied in the Middle Rhine region of Germany as a pioneer in iron and steelmaking. Today – 252 years later – ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe and operates the world's largest production site for packaging steel. The company has developed very close links with the region and its people.

The Interview: Philip Buisseret, APEAL

Philip Buisseret joined APEAL as Managing Director in February 2011. He has played a pivotal part in shaping the new APEAL team, and holds positions on the Executive Committees of EMPAC (the association of European rigid metal packaging producers) and ...

Season’s Greetings out of a can: APEAL donates canned food to a Brussels homeless centre

Christmas is indeed a time of giving. So for the second year in a row, instead of buying and sending cards, APEAL decided to donate the equivalent of the sum saved in canned food to “Chez Nous/Bij Ons”. “Chez nous/ Bij ...

APEAL’s full story: Tinplate LCI

APEAL has released the first comprehensive LCI dataset for tinplate packaging steel. This new dataset provides the most up to date and accurate information on the environmental profile of steel for packaging; both the environmental gains made over the last ...

Grenelle Law Impact on green dot cost structure in France

A new scale of green dot charges was implemented in France on 1st January 2012. The new system has been set up with two aims: to comply with the 2009 Grenelle Law objective of reaching a 75% recycling rate for ...

Green Solutions for Central Europe

The objective was clear; that ministers, policy makers, customers and steel producers present strategies, exchange ideas and communicate their visions for steel as a sustainable packaging solution for Central Europe. Representatives of the steel industry joined APEAL last September in Košice, ...