Steel Cans Displace Aluminum As Florida's Top Recycled Packaging; Other Recycling Rates Announced

摘要

Steel cans were the most-recycled packaging in Florida in 1994, registering a 64.4-percent recycling rate-10-percent-age points higher than the next-closest packaging, aluminum cans -according to the Steel Recycling Institute (Pittsburgh). To achieve this rate, which was equivalent to recycling 70,000 tons of steel food, paint, and aerosol cans, the institute worked closely with recycling coordinators throughout the state and promoted steel can recycling through multimedia public awareness programs and educational programs in Florida schools. The 1994 steel can recycling rate far exceeded the 50-percent minimum required for cans, bottles, and jars to be exempt from Florida's advance disposal fee of 2 cents per container, which is slated to sunset in October. Metal Businesses Grew. Allied Metal Co. (Chicago) has opened a new zinc alloying plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., that virtually triples its annual production of zinc alloy ingot, margash, and sow, adding 50 million pounds to its former annual capacity of around 25 million pounds.