Recycling more cans
14 Oct 2005
Novelis has completed a £1.4 million investment at its Warrington, UK-based used beverage can recycling plant that will enable the company to increase the plant's capacity by 25%.
Novelis has completed a £1.4 million ($2.5 million) investment at its Warrington, UK-based used beverage can recycling plant that will enable the company to increase the plant's capacity by 25%.
In the first nine months of 2005, the facility at Latchford Locks recycled six billion used beverage cans, establishing a new plant record.
The aluminium can is the most valuable beverage container in the recycling stream, providing both economic and environmental benefits. Aluminium cans are infinitely recyclable, and can go from the consumer, through the recycling process and back on the store shelf as a new can in as little as 60 days. Not only does used beverage can recycling reduce landfill waste, it also saves 95% of the energy that would otherwise be required to make new aluminium.
Globally, Novelis recycled more than 30 billion cans in 2004, making the company the world's largest used beverage can recycler.