毎日のアーカイブ: 1月 6, 2016

アルミニウムは環境に優しいパッケージです

Aluminum packaging looks very well-positioned in the new “green revolution”. Everything is going green these days – green computing, green buildings, green energy, and of course green packaging.       This is really quite a significant target and a story that both consumers and packagers should really know. Most people would probably think that glass containers have better recycling rates than aluminum. In fact, according to the EPA, “only 22% of glass containers were recycled in 2003, as compared to 44% for aluminum cans.” The Container Recycling Institute reported that in 2006 aluminum recycling rates were at 45.2%, vs. 23.5% for PET plastic and 27.8% for glass. Aluminum’s recyclability…