Recycling of Metal Packaging
See the movie about the lifecycle of metal packagning and get more information on metal and recycling.
Carbon Footprint Calculation
For European produced cans and tins, we can offer carbon calculation per product.
Sustainable Packaging
Apart from providing the consumers with food safety, convenience and being a cost efficient packaging it also has some environmental advantages.
Metal packaging has no equal alternative when it comes to sustainability
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1. Metal retains its original material properties during the recycling process. 2. And is 100% recyclable – which means that there are no waste and waste sub-stances in the recycling process. 3. Therefore the material can be recycled again and again. 4. High recycling rates: Sheet metal 70 per cent – Aluminium 62 per cent (Figures for Europe, 2007). 5. With a relatively low level of material consumption, the barrier properties of metal packaging provides the consumer with food safety. 6. Contributes to extending product lifetime – reduces thereby food wastage by 50 per cent in developing countries and up to 20 per cent in other parts of the world. |
7. Requires no secondary packaging. 8. Requires minimum energy consumption during transport and storage at home - does not require any refrigeration or freezer storage. |
Further metal packaging gives a more natural preservation with no or limited use of additives which maintains minerals and vitamins throughout processing thus providing high quality and unchanged nutrition value.
Recycling
Both tinplate and aluminium is 100% recyclable.
Metal packaging is made out of metal produced with over 50% of recycled material (average number for tinplate and aluminium, Europe 2006). Source: Corus.
Contact
Anne Krintel
Marketing Manager
+45 76 75 75 68
+45 26 19 22 34 akr@glud-marstrand.com
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