04 Jan 2022 --- A record 36.5 billion aluminum beverage cans were recycled in the EU, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland in 2019, according to European Aluminium and Metal Packaging Europe. The trade associations pinpoint increased beverage can consumption as the main driver behind the record 76% recycling rate. Europe saved 488,000 tons of aluminum and 4 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2019, equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by a European town of 440,000 inhabitants like Bratislava, Slovakia.
