Welcome to CMI’s Aluminum Beverage Can Sustainability Communications Toolkit!
We hope the contents in this toolkit will make it easier for you to communicate to consumers about why aluminum beverage cans are a sustainable, circular package and why it is so important to recycle aluminum beverage cans.
The toolkit is broken down into several categories. Within each category, you will see key messages/talking points (with hyperlinks to the original source), as well as downloadable graphics.
These are here for you to use and download — There is no need to ask CMI’s permission to use them. We would, however, appreciate seeing the final product.
The aluminum beverage can industry expects to have more cans recycled in the coming years as it executes on its roadmap to achieve its ambitious recycling rate targets. Those graphics are also included below.
CLICK ON THE CATEGORY BELOW TO SEE TALKING POINTS AND GRAPHICS
CLICK BELOW TO SEE GRAPHICS FROM THE RECYCLING PRIMER AND ROADMAP
Source Reports:
1. Aluminum Beverage Cans: Driver of the U.S. Recycling System
2. ReMA’s Economic Impact Study
3. The Recycling Partnership State of the Curbside Recycling
4. Aluminum Association: Aluminum Can Advantage
5. Aluminum Association: The Aluminum Can Advantage Sustainability Key Performance Indicators 2024
6. Recyclable aluminum rolled products building blocks for a sustainable world
8. Life of a Can: The Never-Ending Story
9. 2021 Aluminum Association Life Cycle Assessment of North American Beverage Cans
10. Aluminum Can-to-Can Claim Documentation in the U.S. (11.2024 Resource Recycling Systems)
12. GBB-Report-Aluminum-Can-Drives-U.S.-Recycling-System-Final-2020-0623.pdf