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The Aluminum Can Infinitely Recyclable

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The Aluminum Can Infinitely Recyclable

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    1. 1 The Aluminum Can Infinitely Recyclable An Overview of the PE Americas Aluminum Can LCA Report

    2. 2 Steve Gardner—VP, Communications Bob Strieter—VP, EH&S Marshall Wang—LCA Specialist Chuck Johnson—Director EH&S Neil D’Souza—PE Americas Who We Are

    3. 3 The Story of the Aluminum Can What we already know about the can. What we found as a result of the study What is a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)? Why did we do it? How do you conduct an LCA? Methodologies Results

    4. 4 What We Know The Can—Infinitely Recyclable A recycled aluminum can is back on the store shelf in 60 days. Using recycled aluminum saves 95% of the energy that would be used to produce new aluminum. The aluminum beverage can is the world’s most recycled container - more than 69% of all cans are recycled worldwide. Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can’s volume of gasoline. Recycling 1 ton of aluminum saves the energy equivalent of 1,100 gallons of gas or electricity used by a typical American home over 3.5 years

    5. 5 What We Found

    6. 6 A Lower Carbon Footprint Greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 44% since 1993 Emissions reductions led by greater energy efficiency in aluminum production and can manufacturing

    7. 7 A Lighter Can Today’s cans use 15% less aluminum than they did in 1993.

    8. 8 Energy Savings 30% Decrease in energy use since 1993

    9. 9 The Most Recycled Beverage Container in the World Each can on average is made from 68% recycled content—more than any other beverage container in the world.

    10. 10 Our Goals

    11. 11 What is Life Cycle Analysis? It’s a tool to help quantify a product’s impact on the environment and help reduce it. A life-cycle assessment examines the potential environmental impact of a product through its entire life-cycle from the raw materials through its production, distribution, use, disposal, and recycling LCA identifies and quantifies the energy and raw materials used—and the emissions and wastes generated.

    12. 12 What about this LCA? Fulfills Walmart expectations Establishes corporate stewardship Updates and benchmarks LCA Confirms efficiency and recycled content claims The Can LCA fulfills Walmart’s Scorecard data needs for aluminum beverage cans. Because of the rigorous nature of the study, and the fact that the Al industry is one of the first industries to complete this work, it positions us with a strong Corporate stewardship message, especially among environmental stakeholders familiar with the LCA landscape The study is not a comparison analysis of aluminum and other materials. We cannot articulate an “aluminum is better” message using only the study. The study does give us the positioning we need to make those arguments as other materials roll out their own life cycle metrics. We’ve done our homework. Finally, the study does establish a 30% efficiency increase over a 15 year period, and it does reaffirm the Association’s 67.8% recycled content rate.The Can LCA fulfills Walmart’s Scorecard data needs for aluminum beverage cans. Because of the rigorous nature of the study, and the fact that the Al industry is one of the first industries to complete this work, it positions us with a strong Corporate stewardship message, especially among environmental stakeholders familiar with the LCA landscape The study is not a comparison analysis of aluminum and other materials. We cannot articulate an “aluminum is better” message using only the study. The study does give us the positioning we need to make those arguments as other materials roll out their own life cycle metrics. We’ve done our homework. Finally, the study does establish a 30% efficiency increase over a 15 year period, and it does reaffirm the Association’s 67.8% recycled content rate.

    13. 13 Timeline

    14. 14 Walmart Expectations

    15. 15 Why Two Approaches? Recycled content approach implemented by Walmart Closed loop approach practiced by most LCA practitioners Both sets of results are valid and based on identical data Future Al Assn communications will emphasize closed loop approach Both data sets will be included in report, and available to the public

    16. 16 Results: per 1000 cans

    17. 17 Participating Organizations Rolling Mills (Alcoa, Logan Aluminum, and Wise Alloys) Can Manufacturers Institute Members Secondary Aluminum Producers (Aleris, Novelis, Alcoa, Logan Aluminum)

    18. 18 Peer Review

    19. 19 What do we want you to do? Make use of the facts figures and resources Let us know what other tools or information you might need

    20. Resources www.aluminum.org/LCA Press release Q&A LCA Study Stakeholder Deck

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