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![]() ![]() In North America and in Europe, a beverage can is produced, filled, distributed, consumed, collected and recycled back into a can within 60 days. The growing global markets for aluminium products are supplied by both primary (around 65%) and recycled (around 35%) metal sources. Through the use of only 5% of the original energy input, this metal can be made available not just once but repeatedly from these material resources for future generations. This property of infinite recyclability has led to a situation where today around 75% of the almost one billion tonnes of aluminium ever produced is still in productive use, some having been through countless loops of its lifecycle. ![]() Therefore, the life cycle of an aluminium product is not the traditional "cradle-to-grave" sequence, but rather a renewable "cradle-to-cradle". ![]() Today, recycling of post-consumer aluminium products saves over 90 million tonnes of CO 2 and over 100,000 GWh of electrical energy, equivalent to the annual power consumption of the Netherlands.įor most aluminium products, the metal is not actually consumed during the product's lifetime, but simply used, with the potential to be recycled without any loss of its inherent properties. ![]()
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