Industry heavyweights ABInbev, Coca-Cola Southern Africa, Nampak Bevcan and Hulamin have thrown their weight behind an initiative to convert the beverage can industry from steel to aluminium. The more than R1.258 billion investment will not only bring the region in line with other major markets such as the United States – which changed to aluminium cans in the 1970s and 1980s – but also impact the industry’s recycling statistics positively. According to MetPac-SA, the industry body representing the interests of the local metal packaging industry, the recycling rate for used beverage cans in South Africa grew significantly from only 18 % in 1993 to its present rate of around 72%.
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