OUGD503 - Responsive - Starpack - Sustainability of Metal Tins

Sustainable packaging;

- Is healthy and safe for individuals throughout its life cycle
- Is designed to optimise materials and energy
- Meets market criteria for both performance and cost
- Optimises the use of renewable/recycled materials
- Is sourced, manufactured, transported and recycled using renewable energy
- Is manufactured using best practices
- Is made from materials healthy in all probable end of life scenarios.

Tin Packaging and its Main Sustainable Factors

Tin packaging is ethically sourced, safe, clean and non-toxic making it a popular packaging material for everything from food to cosmetics. Metal materials are also exceptionally durable, earning consumer trust as a result of its achieved perceived quality.

Tin packaging also recycles forever without loss of quality. However most tins are collected, displayed or refilled around the home, thus effectively utilising the material beyond its initial purpose.

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-Metal - the most recycled packaging material

When metal products reach the end of their useful life, the materials are simply collected and recycled, again and again, with no loss of their inherent properties. This is known as real recycling. The metal packaging industry and its recycling stakeholders are committed to a real-recycling society.

The metal packaging industry is the perfect example of a circular economy, with metal recycling forever in a material-to-material loop. When a metal product reaches the end of its useful life, the material is never lost. Through recycling, its value is retained forever, making it available today and for future generation

MPMA - Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association

Our vision is that no metal packaging should go to landfill. Using resources more efficiently, avoiding spoilage and improving the recovery of materials, in short, using resources responsibly has always been key to our success.

Metals sustainability is driven by recycling because recycling saves up to 95% of the raw materials and energy needed to make new metal.

Metals are elements, aluminium and steel are therefore permanently available materials regardless of their many applications and we have an agreed strategy to use our planets resources in the most efficient and accountable way possible.

Metal has always been valuable and has always been recycled. We have long-standing experience in sustainable materials management and continuously increasing resource efficiency. The industry track-record of decoupling market growth from resource use testifies to this.  That means striving towards keeping all metal packaging in the material to material loop as metal can be recycled an infinite number of times, saving energy and resources, and does not disappear or degrade.