Mepak-Kierr

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Mepak-Kierrätys Oy

• www.mepak.fi
• Metal-packaging producer organisation
• Founded in 1997, entered in the wastefile in 1998
• Packaging
• Tinplate packaging such as food cans, paint
  pails,
• crown caps, lids to glass jars and aerosol
  cans
• Aluminium packaging such as aluminium trays,
  screw
• caps, beverage cans, aerosol cans, foil lids
  and sardine
• cans
• Steel packaging such as drums, bindings ja metal
  cores
• Deposit beverage cans managed by PALPA

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Area of responsibility and tasks

• Organisation of the recovery of metal packaging
  to meet the recycling targets set in compliance
  with the EU packaging directive and the decision
  by the Council of State
• 25 in 2001
• 50 in 2008
• Recovery assurance
• Studying optional schemes to attain the target
• Collection is not within the area of
  responsibility

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Shareholders the entire packaging chain

• Domestic metal packaging industry
• Crown Pakkaus Oy
• Finn-Korkki Oy
• Metalpak Oy
• Onni Forsell Oy
• Paketo Oy
• Packaging industry
• The Food Industry Federation
• The Printing Ink Association
• The Finnish Aerosol Association
• The Paint Industry Association
• Oil Industry Service Centre
• Wholesale-Retail trade
• The Food Retail Federation
• Building and Interior Supplies Trading
  Association Rasi

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Recovery of metal packaging

• Steel packaging recycled for the domestic steel
  industry through the scrap business
• Aluminium packaging recycled by Kuusakoski Oy or
  the foreign aluminium industry
• Tinplate packaging recycled for the foreign steel
  industry using crushing plants
• Mechanical separation from other waste

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Environmental impact of recycling

• According to research by AEM Ltd the crushing and
  smelting of metal paint packaging is more
  economical than processing automobile scrap from
  the standpoint of environmental impacts
• Use of recycled metal as raw material for
  packaging saves energy by 75-95
• Each metal packaging contains over 25 recycled
  material
• The quality of metal does not deteriorate through
  recycling

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Metal packaging in Finland in 2006

• Packed in Finland and imports
• Tinplate 15 670 tn
• Aluminium 6 400 tn
• Deposit cans 6 500 tn
• Steel 16 260 tn
• Total 44 800 tn
• 2001 target 25
• 2001 recycled 39
• 2003 recycled 50
• 2006 recycled 59
• 2008 EU target 50

(Figures taken from PYR statistics)
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Metal packaging waste (tn)
Figures without bindings and beverage cans
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Recycling of metal packaging material and reuse
of metal packaging
YEAR RECYCLED REUSED
1999 19 90
2000 25 89
2001 39 88
2002 46 91
2003 50 88
2004 2005 55 54 90 90
2006 59 93
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Recovery fees based on
statistical data from previous year
(VAT 0 ) 1999 2000 FIM/tn 2001 FIM/tn 2002 2003 2004 /tn 2005 /tn 2006 2007 /tn 2008 2009 /tn /tn
Alum. and tinplate 50 70 80 50 70 80 20 18 17 18 20
Steel 0 - 5 5 0 - 5 5 2 1,80 1,70 1,80 2,00
Deposit cans Fees Fees from deposit based Scheme


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What recovery fees go to
Crushing plants

• recovery

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Suppliers of packaging scrap

• payments

Packer Importer
MEPAK 100
PYR Oy
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• information
• research
• tests

Workshop activities
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Administration

• www
• office
• travel

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Recovery assurance

• Mepak has made contracts with the two scrap
  companies
• with crushing plants in Finland
• Kuusakoski Oy and Stena Metalli Oy
• Involving five crushing plants and 29 local
  terminals. In addition a collection skip by
  separate arrangement
• Payment to deliverers of tinplate and aluminium
  packaging in 2009
• At local terminal EUR 17,00/ tn
• At crushing plant EUR 17,00/ tn
• Mepak-Kierrätys Oy pays for the crushing and
  transporation of, compilation of statistics on
  and recovery programme for packaging tinplate and
  aluminium
• Statistics also on steel packaging
• Suppliers of packaging tinplate and aluminium are
  registered with Mepak and are committed to the
  reception terms. Over 270 contracts. A
  certificate for contracting parties
• Similar contract with Eurajoen Romu Oy (local
  terminal)

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Reception points for metal packaging
Crushing plants Local
terminals Kuusakoski Oy Seutula,
Heinola, Airaksela, Lapua Turku, Tampere,
Lahti Jyväskylä, Pori, Rauma,
Kotka, Imatra, Karjaa, Esbo Laihia,
Joensuu, Kajaani Oulu, Kalajoki,
Iisalmi Stena Metalli Oy Pori
Riihimäki, Tarvasjoki, Lahti Jyväskylä,
Vaasa, Oulu, Pori Vantaa, Lappeenranta,
Nokia Kotka, Joensuu, Pusula
Eurajoen Romu Oy Eurajoki

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Certificate

• Oy Company Ab has made a contract with
  Mepak-Kierrätys Oy, the producer organisation for
  metal packaging, concerning the recovery of
  tinplate and aluminium packaging in accordance
  with Council of State decision 962/97. The
  contract entitles the said firm to payment for
  metal packaging complying with reception terms.
  The receiving firm is committed to the recycling
  of packaging into raw material.

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Lassila Tikanoja Oyj contract

• Mepak and LT have a joint contract concerning
  the promotion of recycling of metal packaging
• Contract for 2001 2003. New contract from 2004
• Mepak supports information and campaign
  activities
• Mepak does not support collection
• There is no exclusive agreement with LT
• LT gradually providing collection of metal
  packaging and small metal to cover the whole
  country
• The contract also covers paint pails

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Food packaging

• Running of Greater Helsinki Waste Management
  (YTV)s 27 district collection points transferred
  to Lassila Tikanoja Oyj. LT provide collection
  services to households and business
• Retailers, food industry and caterers involved
  (compacting systems)
• Plan for an incineration plant to be set up by
  YTV where metals will be sorted. Waste management
  regulations to be renewed. Good results in
  collection of small metals (VTT) in pilot
  schemes. Metal recovered in Ekokem incineration
  plant.
• Growth in municipal collection of small metals in
  Finland through contracts with Kuusakoski, Stena,
  Jylhän, Eurajoen and LT and through the new
  landfill regulations

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Paint packaging

• Recycling trials among professional users since
  1996
• Established recycling routines by industrial
  painters
• - recycling rate over 50
• Emptying instructions for paint packaging
• - pails stacked on pallet with opening downwards
• - packaging must be absolutely dry/empty (no wet
  paint)
• - a hole must be pierced in the bottom to ensure
  drying and emptying
• Reception terms checked for explosions occurring
  during crushing
• - contractpractice
• Ongoing pilot schemes on building sites and paint
  retailers for profession painters

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Consumer paint packaging

• Collection pilot schemes started in 1999
• - M.Sc. thesis on recycling of consumer paint
  packaging
• - market research
• Paint retailers involved are
• - Värisilmä store in Muurala
• - ATV in Turku
• - K-rauta store OTRA in Tampere
  
• - Rautia-Malmi
• - Maalarimestarien Oy in Helsinki
• LT provides collection service to retail stores
• After pilot schemes recycling of consumer paint
  pails as part of small metal collection is
  allowed in the entire country in 2005

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Recycling of aerosol cans

• Different procedures in different countries. In
  Sweden empty unpressurized aerosol cans included
  in other packaging waste
• In Finland pilot schemes at Seutulan Uusiometalli
  Oys plant
• - about five percent metal to be crushed
  consisted
• of aerosol cans
  
• - results acceptable after a difficult start
• As a consequence of positive results of the trial
  in Turku following the Swedish model, collection
  of aerosol cans with other metal packaging waste
  is approved for the whole of Finland in 2005
• Collection instructions and reception terms for
  industrial aerosol cans made www.mepak.fi

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Steel packaging

• Drums reconditioned 6 7 times
• Drums rejected in conditioning process (about
  30 ) sent to steel mills as raw material
• Clean drums with ends open sent to scrap dealers
  or crushing plant
• Recycling instructions for users of drums
  www.mepak.fi
• The major part of steel binding goes as recycled
  raw material to steel mills via scrap dealers
• The bindings are cut up or bailed for crushing