While aluminium generally achieves high recycling rates, compacter items continue to underperform.
These include:
- Coffee capsules
- Chocolate foils
- Cheese foils
- Dairy lids
- Small containers
Although modern, large-scale sorting facilities possess the capability to separate these formats, this capacity is not uniformly available across Europe.
The result is that substantial volumes are currently incinerated and only partially recovered through bottom ash treatment, an approach that will not satisfy future recycled-at-scale requirements under forthcoming regulation.
The expanding implementation of deposit return schemes for beverage containers is reshaping hoapplyhold recycling streams throughout Europe.
As these schemes rerelocate beverage containers from the waste stream, sorting plants could have an opportunity to redirect their focus towards other packaging formats, including compact aluminium items.
The alliance intfinishs to apply this transition period to identify specific bottlenecks in waste management systems and support tarobtained improvements in collection, sorting and recycling infrastructure.
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