About Twitchers

A message from the founder Gerry Evans

The Reusa-Can Project, of which Twitchers is a part, is a genuine green project in which, I believe all environmentalists and bird watchers should want to support. Help us to cut CO2 emissions, at the same time own a part of an exciting UK project.

The Reusa-Can project is designed to dramatically reduce energy, chemical, fossil fuel and water usage when manufacturing of metal cans such as soup, baked bean pet food and beverage cans. It will also reduce PFC and CO2 emissions worldwide by at least 20 million tonnes per annum and possibly up to 200 million tonnes per annum when all the energy production pollution have been calculated. Our aim is to cut tinplate steel and aluminium production two of the biggest polluters in the manufacturing industry. If you want to cut CO2 gases you have to stop producing it!!

Every time the public open a can of baked beans, soup or beverage can etc most people wash out the can afterwards and put it out for recycling. However, having washed out the can they have in their hand a perfectly good container, all that is missing is the seal cap that has been removed prior to the contents being emptied out, the remaining part of the cap remains on the top edge of the can body forming a rim. If that rim is removed without damaging the can, then sterilised and re-lacquered it could be put into the food chain again – not just once but up to eight or nine times in a twelve month period multiplying the CO2 savings. That is the “Reusa-Can Project”. See photograph of refurbished Heinz bean can below ”.

Every steel can manufactured from recycled cans creates three times it own weight of CO2 gas emissions and aluminium cans create about five times the amount. If you recycle an empty baked bean can weighing 50 grams by the time it has gone through the recycling procedure and been to manufactured another can it will have created 150 grams of CO2 gas emissions. If we could use that same can ten times it would save 1.5 kilo’s of CO2 gas emissions. The UK uses 20 billion (worldwide 800 billion) cans per year that is 900,000 tonnes of aluminium and steel and although we recycle them in increasing numbers this is not the real answer to the problem – reusing them is because there are no CO2 emissions when the Reusa-Can procedure is used. It eliminates crushing, smelting down into ingots, further heating when rolled into plate and again when made into tinplate just to be turned into cans again. Why re-make something that has already been produced? The steel and aluminium industries are the greatest polluters of all the worlds manufacturing industries. If we can cut worldwide production of steel and aluminium cans we will reduce the use of energy, oil, water, fossil fuel usage, coke production, also the use of some very unpleasant toxic chemicals, CO2 and general pollution everywhere. UK usage of 20 billion cans generates 4.7 million tonnes of CO2 gas emissions requires enough energy to supply over a million UK homes, over 3 million tonnes of fossil fuel and water usage also greatly increases our imports. Cheap scrap in the form of cans is exported to China or India then imported as tinplate or cans. Totally crazy! We are cutting our own commercial throats – why?

If we could refurbish 75% of cans presently in service in the UK once it would save 3.75 million tonnes of CO2. Not bad for something that was “not feasible” by a government department when refusing the project a grant. Reusa-Can cannot accomplish its task unless we break away from the elementary engineering we have to use at present by automating the concept by automating the design. We need the British public’s help.

Reusa-Can are not advocating that we should stop recycling metal, it is important that we continue and increase recycling for those items that cannot be refurbished. The standard everyday baked bean and soup can etc is an item that could be refurbished thereby giving them a second or even ten times lease of life. Metal cans are an essential part of our everyday life providing an excellent means of preserving goods to the highest standards when reaching the customer. Reusa-Can is advocating a greater use of cans by increasing the range of products put into them, but refurbishing as many cans as possible reducing pollution and CO2 gas emissions by minimising the use of other types of container.

Reusa-Can has to raise capital quickly to overcome their slow production methods to improve their service and automating production with sterilising equipment, can seamers and re-lacquering equipment etc to enable us to improve the product to food standard requirements. Therefore, they are making a unique one-off offer to their UK customers only for one-month December 2007 and in January 2007 it will open to anyone from abroad as well. Any customer ordering three packs (4 cans per pack) of “Twitchers Fat Blocks” either in one order or individually as three separate orders they will be given one share “free of charge” in both Twitchers Food Supplies UK Ltd and Reusa-Can UK Ltd. But there are more benefits for their customers that they can read in the “Contract”. Reusa-Can will increase its range of goods as quickly as possible going into fields not normally associated with cans. As each knew line comes onto the market those customers who helped them in the beginning will automatically get a share of each of these companies or new lines “free of charge”. Customers will be able be able to redeem their shares in five years at the end of 2011, if they wish to do so, but will be strongly advised to hang on to them, as there are more benefits to come their way as the range increases!

Reusa-Can’s pledge to its customers is: “that none of the directors will not take out any salary, bonuses or dividends from the company until all initial orders are delivered.” Help us to keep this concept British. An independent auditor will vet our progress to assure our customers via the Internet that we are carrying out our promise honourably.

Customers should appreciate that this is going to be a long-term project but you are buying fat blocks and getting the shares for nothing. Reusa-Can will face much opposition from many industries and possibly the UK government – from past experience especially the government. I am hoping it will become very big; refurbishment of cans is essential to protect our environment. It will affect steel and aluminium production and pressure may be put on waste companies to prevent us having the cans. We will be offering a higher rate of return to waste companies than they will get selling them as scrap metal. Read my report sent to the House of Lords Water Management Committee (www.gjewatermetering.com) earlier this year on water metering then you will understand my scepticism with politicians when they talk on green issues or anything else. My water report was tucked away in the evidence that no one in the media ever reads and that is why you never heard about it.

I am a garden bird watcher and I am concerned that fat blocks bought in some outlets could have been on the shelf for weeks, they may not be fresh. Having started the Reusa-Can project I quickly realised birds could benefit from canned fat blocks, but only if put into an “environmentally friendly refurbished can”. They are as fresh when you open them as the day they were made!

Plastic containers are the wrong “environmentally” for fat blocks and many other packaging. Apart from using precious oil resources they create more harmful pollution such as PFC’s, CO2 than steel possibly doing more harm to the environment than good for the birds; see “Pollution from plastic production” on Google or www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php. We need to reduce plastic packaging. Bird watchers are aware of the environmental problems that exist today they will appreciate that when purchasing a “Twitcher’s canned fat block” the can will have come from Reusa-Can and not caused more environmental problems. NEVER BUY FAT BLOCKS SOLD IN NEW CANS, AS THIS WILL INCREASE CO2 EMISSIONS BY THREE TIMES THE WEIGHT OF THE CAN.

With the Reusa-Can system the product is already made, no new materials are required. I am starting a small cottage industry, having to do everything by hand at first to start “Twitcher’s Bird Foods” and get a public response to the idea of refurbished cans in the UK, all profits will go back into the company to improve the product, service and increasing production. At first some of the cans may not be in the pristine condition we would like them to be but this will change as soon as we have the capital and equipment to lacquer the cans. Twitchers will only be a starting point for this project; the main aim of refurbishing cans is to reach a standard that would make them acceptable for the food and beverage industries. The more fat blocks sold the more likely this British invention will succeed and stay British, which would be an achievement in itself these days. If you don’t it will be lost to foreign companies who will then be backed by UK government grants – your money to set up in the UK!

Having no idea of the response we will get there could be a delivery delay at first until Twitchers have the proper production equipment so please be patient if your goods have not arrived as quickly as you would hope at first. We will only market the fat blocks via the Internet (you can order by post and cheque) at first but will increase the range and open other means of purchasing if it gets a good response from the public. Money raised from the sale of fat blocks will go straight back into R&D and machinery to enable us to remain leaders in this “unique greenhouse gas reduction project”. Environmentalists and bird watchers alike, we hope, will support the Reusa-Can project by buying Twitchers fat blocks. Worldwide Reusa-Can could cut CO2 emissions between 20 and 200 million tonnes per annum when all the energy savings etc are calculated. We believe that there are about two million people in the UK who are genuinely concerned in the environment and our wildlife hopefully many of you will support this project.

During my 30 year career as a design engineer I was runner up in the BBC Tomorrows World in 1987 for “Innovation and Production” and also the water industry’s Hydro Award’s 1995 for “Outstanding Achievement In The Field Of Water Quality Improvement”. A government grant was refused to Reusa-Can on the basis it was impractical and not feasible – I have proved them wrong. Please help us to prove just how wrong they were and keep it British!!

Local Authorities waste collection companies are keen to cut greenhouse gas emissions and are waiting to see what progress is made. Local authorities that have to meet greenhouse gas emission targets have shown interest in what I am trying to achieve. One authority was kind enough to tell me that I was ten years ahead of my time, let’s keep it that way! I sincerely believe the potential to save 4.7 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions and enough energy to supply a million homes in the UK should be a big incentive to everyone.

Many thanks for reading this message, now read the statistics.

Gerry Evans
Managing Director
Reusa-Can Ltd & Twitchers Wild Bird Foods Ltd.

Company details

Company Name
Twitchers Wild Bird Foods Ltd

Company Number
6019209

Registered Office
3 Addiscombe Road, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset BS23 4LT