Waste and food waste in particular are global problems. The metal packaging industry is ideally placed to help reduce both types: not only is metal an infinitely recyclable packaging material, but it also provides an impenetrable barrier that helps to keep food fresh for longer.
Metal packaging has some of the highest packaging recycling rates in Europe:
Implemented work processes and waste management plans to provide guidance on how to reduce, recycle and reuse waste and set internal reduction targets for waste reduction and recycling.
The overall 2025 targets for the aluminium can business include reducing waste generation by 5% and achieving a 94% waste recycling rate (baseline: 2019). The overall goal is zero waste to landfill.
At Envases Skive plant in Denmark, technical material waste is sorted and pressed into AluCubes in their internal ecycling centre, to optimize it for recycling at the aluminium supplier.
The AluCubes come back as new raw material that represent an important part of the aluminium consumption in the production of new cans.