Aluminium beverage can recycling remains at a high 76% in 2019

Increased consumption in 2019 led to record number of 36.5 billion cans being recycled, or 488,000 tons of aluminium, saving 4 million tonnes CO₂

Brussels, 16 December 2021 – A new report by Metal Packaging Europe and European Aluminium shows that the overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union*, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland remained stable in 2019 at 76% (75.8%). With a growing can consumption, the total amount of aluminium recycled from cans reached a record level of 488,000 tonnes and represents a total Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions saving of 4 million tonnes of CO (equivalent to the amount of GHG emissions produced by a European town of 440,000 inhabitants like Bratislava, Tallinn or Murcia**.

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