According to Beverage Marketing Corp., the use of rPET in bottled water packaging has increased to 21 percent.
New data compiled by Beverage Marketing Corp. (BMC), New York, show that between 2000 and 2014 the average weight of a 16.9-ounce (half-liter) single-serve PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle of water has declined 52 percent to 9.25 grams. This has resulted in a savings of 6.2 billion pounds of PET resin since 2000, the organization says.
In addition to lightweighting, water bottles also incorporate more recycled content than in the past. BMC reports that between 2008 and 2014, the use of rPET (recycled PET) in bottled water packaging increased by 17.5 percent to 21 percent. In fact, last year alone, rPET use increased by 8 percent. For companies that use rPET, the average rPET content is 20 percent per container, BMC says.
“While more and more consumers choose bottled water instead of less healthy packaged drinks, our industry continues its efforts to reduce our environmental footprint. In fact, PET plastic bottled water bottles use less plastic than any other packaged beverage,” says Chris Hogan, vice president of communications for the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), based in Alexandria, Virginia.
According to BMC, bottled water is poised to become the largest beverage category, by volume, in the United States by the end of the decade.
All bottled water containers are 100 percent recyclable; and of all the plastics produced in the U.S., PET plastic bottled water packaging makes up only 0.92 percent, according to the BMC.
“From an environmental standpoint, when people choose bottled water instead of any other canned or bottled beverage, they are choosing less packaging, less energy consumption and less use of natural resources,” Hogan says. “What’s more, recycling the bottle can cut that impact by an additional 50 percent, if it is reused to replace virgin PET plastic.”
To encourage a comprehensive approach to effective recycling, IBWA developed its Material Recovery Program (MRP), a collaborative joint venture between businesses and government. The MRP supports the development of new, comprehensive solutions to help manage solid waste in U.S. communities by having all consumer product companies, including bottled water, work together with state and local governments to improve recycling and waste education and collection efforts for all packaged goods.
An estimated 2,500 guests attended the three-day event and operated several brands of equipment.
Company Wrench, Party Plus and Taylor Rental of Lancaster sponsored the Second Annual Operator for a Day, a free family fun day at the Company Wrench headquarters in Carroll, Ohio. The charitable event provided the opportunity for men, women and children of all ages to climb behind the controls to see what it’s like to actually operate large pieces of equipment traditionally used in construction, demolition and recycling. Company Wrench says 2,500 visitors attended the three-day event.
Guests had the opportunity to operate Terex-Fuchs material handlers, Kobelco excavators, Gehl skid steers, track loaders and miniexcavators, Dressta bulldozers and Liugong wheel loaders.
Many sponsors throughout the central Ohio area supported the event by pledging monetary support and items for the raffle. Major sponsors included Company Wrench, Party Plus, Taylor Rental of Lancaster, Terex-Fuchs, Stebelton, Aranda & Snider Law Firm, Nauman Outdoor Advertising, Screen Machine, LaBounty, Peoples Bank, Cintas, Triple S Tire, DNC Hydraulics and Midwest Equipment.
In addition to a raffle, Operator for a Day t-shirts were sold, a 50/50 drawing was held, door prizes were awarded and many food venders were on hand, including charitable groups from Carroll, Fairfield Union and Lancaster High Schools and Bernie Union Baseball & Softball Association. The United Way and The Make A Wish Foundation were on hand to educate guests on their charitable endeavors.
Customers and dealers from several countries attended.
Terex Finlay, based in Omagh, Northern Ireland, recently hosted a U.K. customer open day in Doncaster, U.K. The event was held Sept. 24, 2015, and attracted over 200 end-user customers. In addition to U.K. visitors there was also an international flavor with customers and dealers in attendance from Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Russia. The event and product demonstration were hosted by Catplant, just outside Doncaster, U.K. Catplant is recognized as both experts and leaders in providing quality aggregates and recycling solutions in South Yorkshire, England. “It has been our pleasure to welcome Terex Finlay and so many of their customers and dealers to Catplant for this event. My team on site along with the Terex Finlay service team worked really hard in the days building up to the show and the result was a smooth and seamless demonstration, but I must make a special mention to Brynn Anderson our quarry manager. Brynn and all the boys went the extra mile and it showed on the day with the excellent display of all the machines on site, the weather even helped,” says Ronnie Harrod, managing director, Catplant. The on-site demonstrations featured 13 Terex Finlay machines, five of which have been introduced to the market during the course of 2015. In addition to these new machines a further two crusher prototypes that will be released in Q4, 2015, were on display. The full machine line up at the event was as follows:
Profile of the 2015 new machine launches and imminent machine launches that were on demonstration are as follows: Terex Finlay J-1960 jaw crusher The Terex Finlay J-960 is a compact and aggressive mobile jaw crusher incorporating a proven Terex direct drive single toggle jaw crusher which gives high capacity with large reduction capacities. The plant features a heavy duty hopper with integrated vibrating grizzly and pan feeder as standard. Its compact size, excellent mobility and high crushing capacity even at tight settings in recycling and hard rock operations make the J-960 ideal for small to medium sized operators. Key features:
The machine was demonstrated working in a recycling application and was launched in Q1, 2015. Terex Finlay J-1170AS Jaw Crusher The J-1170AS jaw crusher provides the flexibility of a crushing and screening plant on one machine. This aggressive machine features a detachable on-board sizing screen. The heartbeat of the machine is a robust hydrostatically driven Terex jaw chamber which provides high capacity with large reduction ratios. The jaw chamber configuration can be set up specifically for quarrying applications or processing construction demolition debris using the hydraulic release chamber option. The J-1170AS features a heavy duty variable speed VGF and integrated prescreen giving excellent production throughput in quarrying, mining, demolition and recycling applications. Key features:
The machine was demonstrated working in a concrete recycling application and was launched in Q2, 2015. Terex Finlay C-1545 Cone Crusher The Terex Finlay C-1545 is a high capacity and aggressive cone crusher that consistently provides high output capacity and a product with excellent cubicity. This efficient and productive machine incorporates the NEW Terex® 1150 cone crusher driven by direct clutch drive with variable speed, automatic tramp relief and hydraulic closed side setting (CSS) adjustment. The large hopper/feeder has a metal detection and a purge system to protect the cone and reduce downtime by removing metal contaminants via the purge chute. Key features:
Terex Finlay 873 Heavy Duty Screen The 873 heavy duty screen has been engineered to work as a primary screen in quarry, demolition, C&D Recycling, landfill material, topsoil, sand and gravel, coal, slag, ore processing and aggregates. This new model offers small and medium sized operators an aggressive, flexible and class leading machine with a wide range of available screening media configurations. The machine has the capability of processing material up to a rate of 450 tonnes per hour. Key features:
The machine was demonstrated working in a concrete recycling application and was launched in Q2, 2015. Terex Finlay 693+ Spaleck inclined screener. The Terex Finlay 693+ Spaleck is the ultimate in mobile fine screening and separation technology. At the heart of the plant is an innovative 2-deck German designed and constructed high performance aggressive screenbox with state of the art flip flow technology on both the top and bottom decks guaranteeing first class screening of difficult materials. Its processing capabilities and application flexibility make the machine the ultimate tracked mobile solution for the processing and separation of recycling materials such as incineration slag, shredder light and heavy fraction, scrap metal, electronic scrap, compost, clay, quarry dust, agg-lime, plastic fractions, biomass, topsoil, ore and aggregates etc. Key features
The machine was demonstrated working in an agg-lime application and was launched in Q2, 2015. In addition to these machines there were also two new two crushers previewed to customers at the event; I-140 impact crusher and C-1540S cone crusher. Both these new mid-sized machines will be launched in Q4, 2015. Key features of C-1540S cone crusher
Key Features of I-140 impact crusher
For further details on the Terex Finlay product portfolio and services please visit our website www.terexfinlay.com.
Association also reports that capacity utilization, at 69.3 percent, was 4 percentage points lower than September 2014.
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Figures released in October 2015 by the World Steel Association (Worldsteel), Brussels, indicate that world crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to Worldsteel was 131 million metric tons in September 2015, a 3.7 percent decrease compared with September 2014. The crude steel capacity utilization ratio for the 66 countries in September 2015 was 69.3 percent, which is 4 percentage points lower than September 2014. Compared with August 2015, it is 1.3 percentage points higher. In the first nine months of 2015, Asia produced 828.9 million metric tons of crude steel, a decrease of 2 percent over the first three quarters of 2014. The EU produced 127.5 million metric tons of crude steel during the first nine months of 2015, slightly down by 0.3 percent compared with the same period in 2014. North America’s crude steel production in the first nine months of 2015 was 85.1 million metric tons, a decrease of 6.8 percent compared with the first three quarters of 2014. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) produced 75.9 million metric tons of crude steel in the first nine months of 2015, a decrease of 5.8 percent over the same months of 2014. Turkey’s crude steel production for September 2015 was 2.5 million metric tons, down by 14.1 percent on September 2014. China’s crude steel production for September 2015 was 66.1 million metric tons, down by 3 percent compared with September 2014.
Japan produced 8.6 million metric tons of crude steel in September 2015, a decrease of 7.3 percent compared with September 2014.
India’s crude steel production was 7.3 million metric tons in September, down by 1.4 percent on the same month last year. In September 2015, Russia produced 5.5 million metric tons of crude steel, down by 3.2 percent over September 2014. Ukraine produced 2.1 million metric tons of crude steel, up by 14.1 percent compared with the same month in 2014. The U.S. produced 6.7 million metric tons of crude steel in September 2015, down by 8.5 percent compared with September 2014. Worldsteel members represent approximately 85 percent of the world’s steel production, including 170 steel producers with nine of the 10 largest steel companies, national and regional steel industry associations and steel research institutes.
International Environment Council Meeting will feature speakers from Czech Republic and Brussels-based organizations.
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) reports that its International Environment Council, under the chairmanship of Olivier François of Galloo, based in Belgium, will feature guest presentations focusing on the contamination of recycling streams and on the circular economy, at the upcoming BIR World Recycling Convention, set for 25-27 Oct. 2015 in Prague. The BIR’s International Environment Council meeting is scheduled for 27 October 2015. Dr Jindrich Petrlik, executive director and co-chair of the Dioxin, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and Waste Working Group of the Toxics and Waste Programme, Arnika Association, Czech Republic, will deliver a presentation titled “Toxic Recycling – How to Avoid Poisoning the Recycling Chain.” The Arnika Association was established as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in 2001 in the Czech Republic to focus on environment protection, toxic chemicals releases and bad waste management practices. Petrlik holds a master’s degree from Masaryk University in Brno and was active in the environmental movement before the velvet revolution in the Czech Republic. He co-authored the book Jak zit dobre, zdrave a ekologicky setrne (How to live well, healthy and environmentally friendly) and also “The Egg Report,” which monitored dioxins and other POPs in free range chicken eggs from 17 countries across four continents. Also part of the IEC meeting will be two presentations focusing on the Circular Economy. Jaromír Manhart, director of the Waste Management Department for the Czech Ministry of Environment, will talk on “The Issue of a Circular Economy from the Perspective of the Czech Republic.” Manhart studied water and waste water management at the Technical University in Prague, where he also obtained a teacher´s Degree in Chemistry. He is a member of the POPs (persistent organic pollutants) waste working group of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Basel Convention and also of the PCBs Elimination Network of the UNEP Stockholm Convention. Moreover, Manhart is an expert with the European Commission’s Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument. Subsequently, Emmanuel Katrakis, secretary general of the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation EuRIC aisbl, will give a presentation titled “Towards a Market Driven Circular Economy.” EuRIC is the umbrella organisation of the European Recycling Industries based in Brussels, which spearheads the industry’s advocacy on the "Circular Economy" towards the European institutions in Brussels. In 2014, Katrakis took up the post of EuRIC secretary general when the organisation was created. Prior to joining EuRIC, he worked in an international law firm and two industry associations where he gained an in-depth experience in association management. Katrakis is a graduate in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges. Conference delegates will also hear BIR Trade and Environment Director Ross Bartley, who present his biannual report on BIR activities in international fora. Together with Eric Harris, associate counsel/director of government and international affairs of the U.S.-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., they will encourage members to support the Environmental Goods Agreement at the World Trade Organization that is moving toward a final agreement. The BIR World Recycling Convention is set for 25-27 Oct. 2015 in Prague.