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Life Cycle Assessment of Beverage Packaging: Pathways to a Circular, Low-Carbon Future
Overview
Life Cycle Assessment of Beverage Packaging: Pathways to a Circular, Low-Carbon FutureSphera |
Analytics & Modeling - Process Analytics | |
Aerospace Packaging | |
Product Research & Development Quality Assurance | |
Predictive Waste Reduction Process Control & Optimization | |
Operational Impact
Ball can now show that aluminum cans – under circumstances reflective of today’s market realities – are a low-carbon, circular packaging solution. | |
Being the most circular single-use packaging option in all regions (based on their MCI scores), aluminum cans reap further environmental benefits from the high average levels of recycled content used during manufacturing and the high recycling rates at end of life. | |
Further improvement of these parameters, combined with future weight optimization and the use of renewable electricity in can manufacturing, will enable aluminum cans to realize additional improvement potentials in the future. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Aluminum cans are the most circular single-use packaging alternative in all regions | |
Aluminum cans fare well in the close competition across a range of impact categories | |