the Brazilian Aluminum Association and Associa??o Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Latas de Alta Reciclabilidade – ABRALATAS the Brazilian Association of Cans of High Recyclability inform that the country has recycled 248.7 thousand tons of aluminum beverage cans of a total of 253.1 thousand tons available in the market in 2011. The aluminum beverage cans recycling rate, therefore, reached 98.3%, keeping Brazil ahead in the world leadership since 2001. According to data provided by both associations, last year 18.4 million packages were recycled and this means 50.4 million a day, or 2.1 million per hour.
According to Renault de Freitas Castro, ABRALATAS CEO the beverage can manufacturing industry has been investing continuously to meet the demand: “the industry increased in 2012 its productive capacity in 9,5% going from 21 billion to 23 billion units per year; an expectation of 7% growth in the consumption of cans”.
Carlos Roberto de Morais, coordinator of ABAL Recycling Committee celebrates another record in the recycling of aluminum cans and explains: “this result has its foundation in a chain structured more than 20 years ago and that guarantees a strong and consistent demand that remunerates all the links involved therein”.
Economic and Environmental Advantages
The collection of beverage aluminum cans has injected R$645 million in the domestic economy. In addition, because it only consumes 5% of electric power when compared to the primary metal process, the recycling of 248.7 thousand tons gave place to a savings of 3.780 GW.h to the country, a figure equivalent to the domestic residential market of 6.5 million people in two million households.
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