22 NOVEMBER 2012World Aluminium Market
Brazil aluminum beverage can recycling rate is the largest in history
Edited by : AL CIRCLE
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The Brazilian Aluminum Association and Associação Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Latas de Alta Reciclabilidade – ABRALATAS, the Brazilian Association of Cans of High Recyclability inform that the country has recycled 248.7 thousand tons of aluminum beverage cans of a total of 253.1 thousand tons available in the market in 2011. The aluminum beverage cans recycling rate, therefore, reached 98.3%, keeping Brazil ahead in the world leadership since 2001. According to data provided by both associations, last year 18.4 million packages were recycled and this means 50.4 million a day, or 2.1 million per hour.
According to Renault de Freitas Castro, ABRALATAS CEO the beverage can manufacturing industry has been investing continuously to meet the demand: “the industry increased in 2012 its productive capacity in 9,5% going from 21 billion to 23 billion units per year; an expectation of 7% growth in the consumption of cans”.
Carlos Roberto de Morais, coordinator of ABAL Recycling Committee celebrates another record in the recycling of aluminum cans and explains: “this result has its foundation in a chain structured more than 20 years ago and that guarantees a strong and consistent demand that remunerates all the links involved therein”.
Economic and Environmental Advantages
The collection of beverage aluminum cans has injected R$645 million in the domestic economy. In addition, because it only consumes 5% of electric power when compared to the primary metal process, the recycling of 248.7 thousand tons gave place to a savings of 3.780 GW.h to the country, a figure equivalent to the domestic residential market of 6.5 million people in two million households.
According to Renault de Freitas Castro, ABRALATAS CEO the beverage can manufacturing industry has been investing continuously to meet the demand: “the industry increased in 2012 its productive capacity in 9,5% going from 21 billion to 23 billion units per year; an expectation of 7% growth in the consumption of cans”.
Carlos Roberto de Morais, coordinator of ABAL Recycling Committee celebrates another record in the recycling of aluminum cans and explains: “this result has its foundation in a chain structured more than 20 years ago and that guarantees a strong and consistent demand that remunerates all the links involved therein”.
Economic and Environmental Advantages
The collection of beverage aluminum cans has injected R$645 million in the domestic economy. In addition, because it only consumes 5% of electric power when compared to the primary metal process, the recycling of 248.7 thousand tons gave place to a savings of 3.780 GW.h to the country, a figure equivalent to the domestic residential market of 6.5 million people in two million households.
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