The Household & Commercial Products Association (HCPA) and the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) provided an update on the Aerosol Recycling Initiative’s first year, and next steps. World Aerosols reports.
The Aerosol Recycling Initative was launched in May last year, with the support of almost 20 companies across the aerosol value chain. It aims to increase access to aerosol recycling and on-pack recyclability messaging.
The initiative’s two quantitative, time-bound goals are to achieve by 2030 at least an 85% recycling access rate for all aerosol cans and label at least 90% of aerosols as recyclable with messaging about how to properly recycle them.
World Aerosols attended an industry update in October, with presentations from Nicholas Georges, HCPA’s senior vice president of scientific & international affairs, Scott Breen, CMI’s vice president of sustainability and Molly Blessing, director of sustainability at HCPA.
Georges began by highlighting the reasons for the initiative. He noted that, back in 2016, the Aluminium Association, CMI, HCPA, and the Steel Recycling Institute sponsored a survey that showed that 70%...
Aerosol Recycling Initiative provides industry update
