‘Concerns over food waste are likely to increase the demand for canned food because cans have a longer product shelf life,’ claims Dr Ulrich Roeske who became president of APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, this month.
About 2.3m tonnes of steel packaging were recycled in Europe last
year, representing an average recycling rate of 63 per cent in the
25 EU member states, and an increase of 6 per cent in recycled
tonnage compared to 2004.
