This update details what activities CMI has pursued to-date within the four pillars of action and complements the 2024 Aluminum Beverage Can Sustainability Key Performance Indicator (KPI) document that updates the U.S. aluminum beverage can recycling rates. According to the KPI document, the U.S. aluminum beverage can recycling rate was around 42 percent in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and then increased slightly to 43 percent in 2023.
12.5.24 Press Release: Aluminum Beverage Can Remains Most Recycled Drinks Package Amid Recycling Rate Decline
While the aluminum beverage can is the most recycled beverage container in the United States, the aluminum beverage can industry members of the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) are committed to raising the U.S. aluminum recycling rate to new heights. CMI published a detailed aluminum beverage can recycling primer and roadmap that explains how the ambitious U.S. aluminum beverage can recycling rate targets that CMI members announced in November 2021 will be achieved. Those targets are reaching a 70 percent recycling rate by 2030, 80 percent by 2040 and 90 percent by 2050. This new report provides more details on what the can industry is doing in the near-term within its four pillars of action to make progress toward the targets and the potential total used beverage cans (UBC) that could be recycled through certain pillars.
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Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling Roadmap & Primer Graphics
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On November 10, 2021, the Can Manufacturers Institute announced aluminum beverage can recycling rate targets that all CMI’s beverage can manufacturer and aluminum supplier members have committed to achieve. These targets include a 70 percent U.S. aluminum beverage can recycling rate by 2030.