Sustainability
Educating ourselves & others for Global Recycling Day
By now, the world’s clued up to the pollution caused by companies and the general public not recycling properly. However, as the metal packaging industry reiterates again and again, more communication is needed to really drive the message home and ensure we’re acting on this issue in the most effective way.
Can Manufacturers Institute joins 2023 Asia CanTech lineup
Robert Budway, president, and Scott Breen, vice president of sustainability, at the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), have been announced as the first keynote speakers joining Asia CanTech’s 2023 edition in Bangkok, Thailand. Alex Rivers spoke to both about their involvement in the conference
Wrexham pupil wins national recycling competition
A Year 7 pupil from Castell Alun High School in Wrexham is celebrating, after winning first prize in a national competition organised by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro).
Novelis opens new can customer solution centre
Novelis has announced the opening of its Customer Solution Center (CSC) for the beverage packaging market in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
New DRS facility under construction near Glasgow
Work is well underway on a multi-million-pound Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) facility that will create up to 140 jobs near Glasgow.
CMI leads Mardi Gras beverage can recycling effort
Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) partnered with a variety of local organisations to recycle more aluminium beverage cans during Mardi Gras 2023.
Sun Chemical and DIC Corporation emissions reduction targets validated by SBTi
The greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets of Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC Corporation, have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
High and dry
We enter March with news of the driest February* in the UK since 1993, according to the Met Office.
Implementing an effective DRS – the challenges, opportunities and necessities
Tom Giddings discusses the introduction of a DRS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, outlines the views of the aluminium industry and explains what decisions need to be made moving forward.
Charity in metal
A resident of York in the UK has raised more than £16,000 over the past ten years, for a charity aiding the personal development of young people with disabilities, by collecting and selling used metal packaging.
Driving sustainable collaboration
Evert van de Weg muses on the evolution of green thinking within the packaging industry, and speaks to Wijnand Bruinsma, AkzoNobel’s director of sustainability, about the company’s Collaborative Sustainability Challenge
Circularity Scotland announces significant support package for drinks producers
Circularity Scotland has just announced £22 million of cashflow support measures to help Scotland’s brewers, distillers, importers and drinks manufacturers prepare for the introduction of Scotland’s deposit return scheme.
Hoffmann Neopac secures CO2-reduced tinplate from thyssenkrupp Rasselstein
Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein and Hoffmann Neopac have jointly signed a letter of intent regarding the supply of CO2-reduced packaging steel.
Biffa to invest £7.7 million in Scottish recycling centre
Up to 60 jobs are being created in Aberdeen, in a multi-million-pound project that will see the city play a pivotal role in Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS).