Just eyewash, or genuine sustainability? Greenwashing vs Green Cycling
Aluminium industry pleads for a sustainable loop economy +++ The epithet “100% recycled metal content” is not a yardstick for ecological common sense
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Questions and Answers “Recycling, Recovery and Recyclability of Aluminium Foil”
Get a better grip on Concepts, Claims and Definitions with the Q&A from EAFA
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Recycling Declaration (download PDF)
For purposes of environmental modeling, decision-making, and policy discussions involving recycling of metals, the metals industry strongly supports the end-of-life recycling approach over the recycled content approach. The weakness of the recycled content approach arises from the fact that a simple account of the history of a material provides no assessment of actual environmental performance.


Collection, Sorting and Recycling of Aluminium Packaging makes a lot of sense!
Aluminium packaging fits every desired recycling and processing route. The amount of aluminium packaging effectively recycled greatly depends upon individual national requirements and the efficiency of the collection schemes, therefore rates vary from 30 to 80% or more across Europe.
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PRESS RELEASE - Alu bevcans recycling 2007 final 16 June 09.
Aluminium Beverage Can Recycling in Western Europe increases to 62%
The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in Western Europe further improved in 2007 and stands now at 61.8%, an increase by 10% compared to the year 2005. This 10% increase represents an impressive saving of 300,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas equivalents.
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