Kwik-Fit has opened a new distribution centre that could extract as many as 650,000 catalytic converters containing rhodium, palladium and platinum.

Around 1.5 million exhausts are removed each year and collected by contractors along with other pieces of scrap metal taken out of cars.

The new 245,000 square feet complex in Northamptonshire will be the hub or a sorting operation to recycle this metal.

A total of 69 trucks will deliver the metal to the complex every day, along with removed tyre casings.

By recycling the catalytic converters, the risk on the environment has been reduced even further and the new centre could save up to 3,000 tonnes of carbon in reduced emissions.

"The opening of the National Distribution Centre has enabled Kwik-Fit to not only improve our recycling effectiveness but improve efficiencies in our transport operations that will save up to three million miles a year," said head of Kwik-Fit Fleet Mike Wise.

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Kwik-Fit Accelerates Recycling, 12/08/08
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