European Metal Recycling (EMR) is a privately held metal and materials recycler headquartered in Warrington, UK, operating sites in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the United States.
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EMR's operational emissions have been flat since 2024 and it buys no renewable electricity, five years after joining RE100. Repeated fires at its Camden, New Jersey site led to a state lawsuit and a 2026 order to stop operating, and the Environment Agency fined it £400,000 in 2021 for illegally dumping shredder waste.
European Metal Recycling scores 34/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Fees pay for the review, never the result. Last verified October 2026.
That places European Metal Recycling joint 505th of 847 companies scored, and it is the only Waste & Recycling company scored so far.
European Metal Recycling stands alone in this category.
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ISO 14001 at UK and EU sites; biodiversity mapping underway using Natural England method but no results disclosed.
No group water consumption or discharge figures reported.
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SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale14 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
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“Non Financial and Sustainability Information Statement disclosures”
“Like many other companies, EMR acknowledges that tackling Scope 3 carbon emissions will be more challenging.”
“EMR has committed to 100% renewable electricity across its sites worldwide.”
“spillage entering surface water drains, watercourses or contaminating unmade ground”
“Recycling is increasingly replacing the environmentally harmful mining and processing of iron ore for steel production”
“European Metal Recycling Ltd (EMR) has been fined £400,000 for illegally disposing of waste at Stowey Quarry, Somerset”
“covering a wider range of materials”
“alleges that at least 12 hazardous fires took place at the facility in the last five years”
“The four-alarm inferno burned for 12 hours before being fully extinguished, sent smoke and pollution 15 miles away”
“New Jersey officials have filed suit against the large scrap metal recycler EMR over a string of hazardous”
“Camden County detected hazardous levels of fine particulate matter just south of homes in Waterfront South”
“The city of Camden issued a cease operations order Thursday to EMR”
“In 2021, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection charged EMR a penalty of $9,500 for two fires”
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European Metal Recycling (EMR) is a privately held metal and materials recycler headquartered in Warrington, UK, operating sites in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the United States. It buys about 8.4 million tonnes of scrap a year and sells about 7.8 million tonnes of recycled material. EMR is part of Ausurus Group Ltd.
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