EU: Recycling rate aluminium beverage cans 72.9% in 2014

The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in Europe (EU 28 + EFTA) increased by 1.6% to a new record level of 72.9% in 2014. On the whole European continent (including other East-European countries, Russia and Turkey) nearly 30 billion cans have been recycled. This means that every second an aluminium beverage can is being recycled somewhere in Europe.
Although only a few European countries already report specific recycling numbers to Eurostat for the whole aluminium packaging fraction it can safely be assumed that all European citizens together recycle more than 60% of their used aluminium packaging (Press Release European Aluminium, 7 November 2017).
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