• Food and beverages

    • Your choice of what to eat and drink has global consequences. Here is a brief introduction to some of the things that are going on 'behind the scenes'.

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  • Aluminium cans

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    • We drink a lot of soda

    The world's beer and soda consumption uses about 200 billion aluminium cans every year. This is 6,700 cans every second - enough to go around the planet every 17 hours.

    Aluminium is energy demanding

    It takes more energy to mine and produce aluminium than any other metal. The energy it takes to make 4 soda cans is equivalent to filling 1 of these cans with gasoline.

    Huge saving potential

    2 percent of the world's energy use is spent on producing aluminium. Producing aluminium from recycled aluminium cans only takes 5 percent of the energy needed to produce new aluminium.

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