By Stéphane Tondo, President of APEAL The amount of steel packaging recycled recently reached another all-time high of 77.5% – this means more than 2.7 million tonnes of steel have been effectively recycled and will be available for the manufacture of new steel products. It’s...... Read more
From Stéphane Tondo, President of APEAL. As I start my new role as APEAL President our association celebrates its 30th anniversary. This is a great opportunity to take stock, look at the progress that’s been made and what challenges lie ahead. The year of our...... Read more
APEAL is an active supporter of the Circular Economy Package and has been following developments in the European Commission closely for many months now. The Circular Economy Package’s stated ambition has always been to help European businesses and consumers make the transition to a stronger...... Read more
Another month, another great event to present our industry, and discuss the circular economy and the way forward for steel for packaging. Last month was the Euro CanTech Forum (www.euro-cantech.com) in Berlin which brought together some of the top thinkers and professionals from across the...... Read more
I recently attended the 23rd annual Packaging Waste and Sustainability Forum here in Brussels, to take part in an interesting discussion event entitled “Fitting the circular economy into your business”. With more than 80 key leaders from the packaging, waste and resource management industry attending,...... Read more
Happy New Year from everyone here at APEAL. I hope all our subscribers and stakeholders have had a fantastic break. I want to start off 2016 by highlighting interesting recent research from Germany which is great news for steel as a packaging solution. The research,...... Read more
It’s been a long wait but it’s finally here – last 2nd December (2015) the European Commission (EC) announced details on the new Circular Economy Package. It is a breakthrough moment, not only for steel packaging but, more importantly, for Europe’s economic and environmental future....... Read more
We’ve just announced that our latest tinplate Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) dataset has been quality-reviewed and is available online. Life cycle thinking is vital for the future, and for moving towards a circular economy in Europe, as environmental regulations that only regulate one phase...... Read more
On the back of APEAL’s successful event in Warszawa, Poland, “Steel Packaging – Green Solutions for Central Europe 2015”, I wanted to share some interesting statistics on recycling rates in the EU. As mentioned by almost all our key speakers in Warszawa, steel’s market leading...... Read more
What an endorsement! The European Environment Agency (EAA) use steel as THE example of resource efficiency in its recent synthesis report, “The European environment — state and outlook 2015” (SOER 2015), published earlier this month. The report evaluates the state and prospects for Europe in...... Read more
Last Tuesday 27th January, the World Steel Association, which promotes steel and the steel industry to customers, the industry, media and the general public, hosted a Twitter debate called #steeltalks, “Why is steel the competitive material of choice in a sustainable world?” With more than 250...... Read more
APEAL recently joined other rigid metal packagingindustry players and trade bodies in developing the “Recycles Forever” logo to engage and educate consumers to better understand their role in keeping metals such as steel in a ‘forever loop’ by recycling their used packaging. To quote Anders...... Read more
