Credit: Covanta
A New Jersey company recently opened a new metal recycling processing operation in Falls Township.
The new facility, located in the Keystone Industrial Port Complex, cleans and sorts metals recovered from facilities owned by the firm Covanta.
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The Falls Township facility is designed to handle up to 12,000 tons of metal materials a per month. The metal is recycled from the waste stream and used in new goods, according to Covanta officials.
“Sorting by material type and otherwise improving the quality of our recycled metal, provides us with a new set of capabilities we did not previously have and gives us a higher-value and more saleable end product in all market conditions,” Steve Bossotti, Covanta’s senior vice president of Covanta metals management, said.
From a Covanta press release:
Using new technology and installing systems to recycle more ferrous and non-ferrous metals, metal recovery has improved by the equivalent of 16 cars per facility per week for ferrous, and for non-ferrous, the equivalent of 25,000 additional aluminum cans per week. In total, Covanta now recycles approximately 500,000 tons of metal per year, the equivalent amount of ferrous and non-ferrous metal to build five Golden Gate bridges and manufacture more than two billion aluminum can
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The company said they hope to save approximately 1.2 million tons of greenhouse gases per year through recycling.
