date:Aug 30, 2012
d higher recycling rates benefit the economy, people and the planet, optimizing the can's environmental footprint.
Aluminum cans have the greatest amount of total recycled content with an industry average of 68%, with Novelis working on Evercan, which would be a can made with fully recycled content.
Joe Pickard, chief economist at ISRI, said: In 2011, aluminum recovered from purchased scrap in the United States increased 8 percent to more than 3 million metric tons, while at the same time tota