Every single can produced can be recycled again and again, while retaining all its original properties, meaning putting a used can into the recycling is the path to sustainability.

Around 75% of all aluminium ever produced is still in use today and it takes around just 5% of the energy to recycle aluminium than it requires to prime new metal. Recycling aluminium cans over and over again saves energy, raw materials and waste headed to landfill. Recycling just one tonne of aluminium saves up to 9 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Aluminium cans recycled in the UK are melted down and turned into ingots (blocks of metal ready for further processing) of aluminium, which are then used to make new cans. This is known as closed loop recycling, because new cans are created from recycled old cans. This is a relatively swift recycling process and a used can is able to be sold as another can in just 60 days, and this cycle can occur an infinite number of times.