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Chubb Fire has won a Business Commitment to the Environment Award for its recycling at its extinguisher recycling unit in Birmingham.
Currently, over 95% by weight of all extinguishers returned the company are recycled. In the last 12 months the company reports it has processed more than 640,000 litres of liquid and responsibly disposed of over 1000 tons of firefighting powder that used to go to landfill. The BCE awards are not, however, the product of recent concern about the environment. They were established back in 1975 and are one of the world’s oldest environmental award schemes.