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Factsheet: Can-to-Can Recycling: Performance, Potential and Pathways

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2025

IAI’s latest factsheet, “Can-to-Can Recycling: Performance, Potential and Pathways”, explores how aluminium beverage cans outperform other beverage containers in circularity, and what steps are needed to achieve full closed-loop recycling.

Our report highlights how smart alloy design, clean recycling streams and better infrastructure can prevent material loss – turning aluminium cans into a blueprint for true circularity.

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