CanRoute specifications

Specifications

• General Description. The steel cans are derived from approved consumer collection schemes at community level.  Effectively, this means steel cans collected from the consumer by kerbside or bring schemes. It can also include steel cans rejected from the filling line during canned product packing operations.
• Cleanliness / Impurities. The steel cans are individually clean, empty, dry, free of all non-metallic contamination (plastic, cardboard, etc) and are free of other ferrous materials and comprise only packaging steel.
• Sealed Gas Containers. The steel cans must exclude pressurised gas, fuel or other sealed containers and any dangerously inflammable material.
• Domestic Steel Aerosol Containers are acceptable provided they are empty.
• Radioactivity. Radioactive components or contents are strictly forbidden.
• Baling / Loose Cans. CanRoute centres have special balers which ensure the necessary size and (high) density of bale required by the steel industry. Collectors may supply loose, flattened or lightly baled cans to the CanRoute centre. If the collector wishes to supply baled cans, these must first be approved by the Corus Steel Packaging Recycling Unit.

Please note that CanRoute centres, acting on behalf of Corus, reserve the right to reject cans which do not comply with these specifications. If there is any doubt, deliverers of cans should first check with the CanRoute centre.

Licences

All Approved CanRoute Sources and their hauliers must hold all necessary current waste management licences as required by the Environmental Protection Act and comply fully with environmental legislation.