Scaling sustainability: Beverage cans in Africa’s fragmented market
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In the global shift towards more sustainable packaging, aluminium beverage cans are often positioned as a near-ideal solution – infinitely recyclable, lightweight, and increasingly favoured by brands seeking both environmental credibility and shelf appeal.
In Africa, however, their growth tells a more complex story. Demand is rising, but unevenly, shaped by competing realities: aspiration and affordability, formal industry and informal systems, global ambition and local constraint. Demand for aluminium cans is growing across the continent, though not in the same way as in Europe or North America. Here, the transition remains uneven, unfolding against structural and economic limits.
Iris Arsic, the features editor of The Metal Packager, speaks with Chukwuma Ndigwe, recycling team lead at GZ Industries (GZI), Nigeria’s largest beverage can producer, about how aluminium cans are reshaping Africa’s beverage landscape and why their path to widespread adoption is promising, and full of potential.
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