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Thanks to grants funded by Ardagh Metal Packaging<\/a> (AMP) and Crown Holdings<\/a> (Crown), material recovery facilities (MRFs) in Alabama and California now have equipment that is estimated to capture more than 31 million aluminum beverage cans annually for recycling that otherwise likely would have been missorted or sent to landfill.<\/p>\n These are the seventh and eighth grants that AMP and Crown have financed in Can Manufacturers Institute\u2019s<\/a> (CMI) MRF can capture program. The Recycling Partnership has administered all eight grants. Collectively, this investment has funded equipment that will capture nearly 150 million aluminum beverage cans annually.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best way, in the immediate term, to collect millions of additional cans for recycling is through capturing missorted cans at material recovery facilities,\u201d said John Rost, Senior Vice President of Crown Technology, Global Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs, Crown Holdings. \u201cCrown is pleased to help finance equipment that quickly delivers so much more recycled aluminum. We can then utilize that material to build on our industry\u2019s 71 percent average recycled content in aluminum beverage cans.\u201d<\/p>\n The impact of these millions of cans<\/a> recycled each year is enormous. According to CMI\u2019s can recycling impact calculator, the more than 30 million aluminum beverage cans recycled each year from the two most recent grants will generate more than $500,000 in revenue, avoiding the CO2 equivalent emissions of driving more than 7.6 million miles. Further, with the nearly 150 million aluminum beverage cans recycled annually from all the grants to-date, the impact represents approximately $2.3 million in revenue and energy savings equivalent to powering more than 6,000 U.S. homes for an entire year.<\/p>\n \u201cMissorted cans are a missed opportunity to drive additional revenue for the U.S. recycling system, strengthen the domestic circular economy<\/a>, and deliver carbon savings,\u201d said Jens Irion, CEO, AMP-North America. \u201cArdagh Metal Packaging is proud to do its part to ensure more aluminum beverage cans are properly recycled.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Recycling Partnership continues to support communities like Baldwin County, Alabama and Galt, California by mobilizing voluntary investments that modernize facilities and improve residential recycling programs,\u201d said Adam Gendell, Director of Materials Advancement with The Recycling Partnership. \u201cOur can capture grants consistently deliver millions of used aluminum beverage cans and improve recycling for millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n The can capture grant program is part of CMI\u2019s comprehensive effort to spur the installation of equipment in MRFs to capture missorted aluminum beverage cans. Based on research from 2020, CMI found up to one in four aluminum beverage cans are missorted at a typical MRF. Without the revenue from used beverage cans, most of these facilities would not be able to operate without a change in their business model.<\/p>\n Along with the research and grants, CMI conducted testing in 2022 at several MRFs proving the number of cans being missorted and the return-on-investment (ROI) to capture them, followed by a free ROI calculator for MRFs to use.<\/p>\nHere\u2019s more information about the newest grants, announced today:<\/h4>\n
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