Ardagh’s packaging has a central role to play in helping our customers meet their sustainability objectives and commitments. Therefore, we have a strong team of dedicated health and safety and sustainability functions across the globe to continually improve our safety track record, reduce energy and water consumption and divert more waste to beneficial reuse. They actively set up and support local recycling activities, and help you with facts and figures.
As metal is a permanent material, it has excellent environmental credentials. Permanent means that metal recycles forever. When metal products reach the end of their useful life, the materials are simply collected and recycled, again and again, with no loss of their inherent properties and so will always be available for future generations.
Today 73% of aluminium beverage cans are recycled in Europe, making metal packaging the most recycled packaging.
Source: Metal Packaging Europe
Recan is a packaging recovery organisation in Poland owned by the Ardagh Group. The organisation works currently with five recycling centres across the country, collecting approx. 12,000 tons of used beverage cans (UBC) per year. The key target of Recan is to keep the beverage can recycling rate on a maximum level as well as ensuring a closed material loop.
Being one of the leading UBC organisations in Poland, Recan considerably influences the annual growth of beverage can recycling, demonstrating compatibility with the legal requirements and social expectations.
Since the start of Recan in 2002, recycling rates of aluminium beverage cans increased from 41% (2002) to 80% (2015) in Poland.
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