Metal Trade Show | More Than 31 Million Aluminium Beverage Cans Captured Annually Recycling as a Result of Grants Result

Canmakers Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) and Crown Holdings (Crown) Fund Two Additional Equipment Grants at Recycling Facilities to Ensure Missorted Cans Are Recycled

The material recovery facilities (MRFs) in Alabama and California now have equipment with the estimated ability to capture more than 31 million aluminium beverage cans annually.

The Alabama’s can capture grant helps finance the installation of an eddy current separator. An eddy current uses magnetic forces to separate out non-metallic metal like aluminium beverage cans from other non-metallic materials.

The Cal-Waste Recovery Systems, Galt, CA, grant embeds AI and new recognition technology into sorting equipment to increase can capture.

These are the seventh and eighth grants that AMP and Crown have financed in Can Manufacturers Institute’s (CMI) MRF can capture program. The Recycling Partnership has administered all eight grants. Collectively, this investment has funded equipment that will capture nearly 150 million aluminium beverage cans annually.

“The Recycling Partnership continues to support communities like Baldwin County, Alabama and Galt, California by mobilising voluntary investments that modernize facilities and improve residential recycling programs,”

said Adam Gendell, Director of Materials Advancement with The Recycling Partnership.

According to CMI’s can recycling impact calculator, the 30+ million aluminium beverage cans recycled each year from the two most recent grants will generate more than $500,000 in revenue, avoiding the CO2 equivalent emissions of driving more than 7.6 million miles.

Further, with the nearly 150 million aluminium beverage cans recycled annually from all the grants to-date, the impact represents approximately $2.3 million in revenue and energy savings equivalent to powering more than 6,000 U.S. homes for an entire year.

“Missorted cans are a missed opportunity to drive additional revenue for the U.S. recycling system, strengthen the domestic circular economy, and deliver carbon savings,”

said Jens Irion, CEO, AMP-North America. “Ardagh Metal Packaging is proud to do its part to ensure more aluminium beverage cans are properly recycled.”

Sourced: Aluminium International Today