He is the CEO of a company based in both Tullamore and Kilbeggan.
A straight talker and a recognised leader.
That's how the CEO of a midlands recycling company is being described after he picked the IERC 2024 Honorary Award.
Kurt Kyck, CEO of KMK Metals Recycling in Tullamore and Kilbeggan, received the award in recognition of a long and industrious career in the metals and WEEE recycling industry.
The award is in the shape of a large cow bell.
Accepting his award, Mr. Kyck says:
"I am a little bit lost for words.
It’s brilliant to be recognised like this.
WEEE recycling is my passion. It’s not just my work. I would like to emphasise it is extremely necessary that the resources that are contained in the products we are consuming every day, are recovered.
We have excellent smelters in Europe and excellent plastic recyclers and we have guys like me who go out and collect it.
This is despite all kinds of adverse challenges, yet we still do it and we are bringing about the aspirations of Mr Pelligrini and the Commission by recovering these resources.
The development of centres of excellence is how we are going to collect critical raw materials. We are going to have to take a step forward and nominate a company or enterprise to recover these resources and bring them to these centres of excellence so that the economies of scale of the recovery of critical raw materials can be met, regardless of price.
By bringing the materials to one location we can achieve the economies of scale."
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