{"id":322,"date":"2026-02-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/?p=322"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:18:50","slug":"recycling-rates-for-aluminium-cans-rise-across-europe-to-76-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/recycling-rates-for-aluminium-cans-rise-across-europe-to-76-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling rates for aluminium cans rise across Europe to 76.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"25a6d650-ac69-47e6-a3e7-5b820c9e36b9\" data-beyondwords-player=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-149042 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Aluminium cans\" width=\"860\" height=\"516\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iStock-875632154.jpg?resize=860%2C516&amp;ssl=1\"><\/h4>\n<h4>Recycling rates for aluminium cans reached 76.3% in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland in 2023, according to a new report.<\/h4>\n<p>The report from Metal Packaging Europe (MPE) and European Aluminium (EA) found that both volumes of aluminium cans placed on the market and recycling tonnages increased year on year, by 4% and 7% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This amount of recycled tonnage reduced Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 5.7 million tonnes of CO\u2082eq, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the findings, Krassimira Kazashka, CEO of Metal Packaging Europe, said: \u201cWe are encouraged by the latest achievements and believe the industry is on the right long-term path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAluminium is a permanent material and a circular resource whose inherent properties do not change, regardless of the number of times it goes through a recycling process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MPE and EA say the continued increase in recycled aluminium volume reflects a general uplift in recycling performance, which was accentuated in countries with Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) for aluminium beverage cans.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that when Malta introduced a DRS in 2023, the country\u2019s aluminium beverage can recycling rate rose from 50 to 80%.<\/p>\n<p>Both Latvia and the Slovak Republic were found to have experienced year-on-year double-digit growth in recycling rates in 2023 following their implementation of a DRS in 2022, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Packaging Group at European Aluminium, Andy Doran, commented, \u201cYear on year the evidence builds that well-designed DRS offer consumers the additional incentive to return high-value aluminium beverage cans for high-quality recycling, at the same time creating the opportunity for closed product loop, circular economy solutions within Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/news\/recycling-rates-for-aluminium-cans-rise-across-europe-to-76-3\/\">Recycling rates for aluminium cans rise across Europe to 76.3%<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\">Circular Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Recycling rates for aluminium cans reached 76.3% in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland in 2023, according to a new report. The report &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gokupara.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}