BALL PARTNERS WITH RECYCLE AEROSOL TO INCREASE RECYCLING RATES

Multinational Ball has just partnered with Recycle Aerosol to increase recycling rates of aluminum aerosol cans in the U.S. The announcement by the American multinational confirms its commitment to creating strategic partnerships that can help the industry move towards a world in which materials can be used again and again.
The alloys used to produce aluminum aerosols are of high purity, so when sourced specifically from recycled aluminum aerosol bottles and cans, there are efficiency gains that also reduce the need for virgin aluminum.
The partnership not only increases aerosol can recycling, but also creates a closed-loop process in which used cans are recycled into new aerosol cans, according to Ball, who adds that producing aluminum products from recycled aluminum is very energy and carbon efficient.
Predrag Ozmo, sustainability manager for Ball Corporation, notes, “Beverage cans are really setting the benchmark for aluminum container recycling, and at Ball we are working to achieve those same high standards for aerosol cans. There are a number of reasons why aerosol cans still have ground to make up, including a lack of consumer education about proper disposal and the recyclability of aerosol cans in general.”
“At Ball, we recognize the problems that exist in the end-of-life management of aluminum aerosol cans. We are committed to significantly improving recycling rates around the world, working together with industry, our value chain partners and brand owners.”, Ozmo notes.
For his part, Gary Okey, executive vice president of Recycle Aerosol, further adds that “Recycle Aerosol has four decades of experience in recycling unsalable filled aerosol bottles and cans that include damaged packaging, manufacturing rejects, outdated contents or modified marketing campaigns that otherwise could not be recycled. As our core business, Recycle Aerosol has developed and refined its engineering process to collect unused aerosol fluids and gases and provide these valuable separated ingredients to new end users.”