EU: Recycling rate aluminium beverage cans 73.6% in 2015

The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland increased by 0.7% to a new record level of 73.6% in 2015. This is well above the recently approved new EU 2025 recycling target of 65% for all packaging. On the whole European continent (including other East-European countries, Russia and Turkey) more than 32 billion cans have been recycled. This means that every second at least 1000 aluminium beverage cans are being recycled somewhere in Europe. Aluminium beverage cans contribute to a large extent to the overall estimated recycling result of 65% for all aluminium packaging (Press Release European Aluminium, 12 June 2018).
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