The Managing Director of Able UK has welcomed what he described as the ‘very constructive and positive tone’ of a meeting with the United Kingdom’s Environment Minister Elliott Morley over the issue of the recycling of redundant US vessels at the company’s Graythorp facility—and the wider issue of ship disposal.
Peter Stephenson, Able UK’s managing director, said, that ministers have indicated that the government wants to see is the “best possible environmentally friendly method for the recycling of the vessels currently moored at our facility and we are absolutely confident that we can meet that requirement.”
“In addition we discussed the wider issue of the increasing challenge of finding the best way to dispose of redundant shipping and the Minister underlined the need for us to have a first-class facility in the UK to undertake this kind of work… that is, of course, the reason why we have developed our TERRC (Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre) facility and why the United States Maritime Agency awarded us the contract for the recycling of their vessels. “
Able UK is in the middle of a controversy over the scrapping of the James River Ghost Fleet, a collection of mothballed navy vessels that were hauled from the U.S. East Coast to the UK to be scrapped.Latest from Recycling Today
- Autocar releases Smart Battery Cable to advance refuse truck fire safety
- PLASTICS launches Positives of Plastics website
- Impact Air Systems launches compact ZAC400
- PCA to shut down paper machines at Washington containerboard mill
- BMRA provides landfill guidance for UK shredder operators
- Fornnax high-capacity tire recycling plant
- EU introduces measures to secure raw materials, strengthen economic security
- US Steel to restart Illinois blast furnace
