First mile recycles!
Why are First Mile partnering with recycle my salon?
The government are bringing in a new law next year which puts consistency across the types of materials that can and can't be collected. There'll be a core set of five or six materials that can be recycled everywhere but there'll also be exceptions, that will include very specialist items like hair foils. That's why it's really important to have schemes like Recycle My Salon which are then picking up these specialist items.
First Mile’s mission to fight climate change
Read the full interview transcript here
If you recycle aluminium, you're saving 90% of the energy. The thing that people don't understand yet is that the resource concentration in a material that is recycled is way higher than getting it from virgin materials. Aluminium is a brilliant example because if you take bauxite, which is all that aluminium is made out of, you have to dig a bloody great big hole where they get lots of ore then take it to a smelter where lots of energy is used to extract the ore to make aluminium into a product. The entire supply chain can be shortened if we take used aluminium and the concentrations is near 100% of the resource. So why are we going back to getting virgin aluminium when we're sitting on top of a huge resource of high concentration aluminium that can be recycled?
What we're trying to do here is help the environment, we're not trying to grow the market share or be competitive with each other. We need to be able to cooperate and work together for the benefit of the environment around these projects.
Bruce Bratley, CEO First Mile
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