Recycling Champion
Easy Separation
Because steel has magnetic properties, it can be easily recovered from all efficient waste streams.
Recycling saves raw materials and reduces CO2 emissions. As a permanent material, steel can be recycled over and over again without any loss of quality.
STEEL: THE RECYCLING CHAMPION
Steel is the most recycled material in the world.
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80.5% of steel packaging is recycled in Europe (2022 data according to new EU calculation methodology).
Recycling
infrastructures
In Europe, recycling infrastructures have been in place for a long time so are well-established and highly efficient.
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100% of all recycled steel packaging is reused to make new steel.
The industry aims for Zero Steel Packaging to Landfill by 2025.
RECYCLES SAVES RESOURCES AND REDUCES EMISSIONS
Steel for packaging’s high recycling rate reduces CO2 emissions.
In 2021, over 2.8 million tonnes of packaging steel was recycled in Europe, saving over 4 million tonnes of CO2.
Energy and raw materials
Energy and raw materials embedded in recycled cans are entirely reused.
Using recycled steel
saves 70% energy.
Calculating Recycling Rates
Steel: a permanent material
Local recycling
Ease of recycling