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Every Can Counts is funded by European and UK drinks can manufacturers (Beverage Can Makers Europe, UK Canmakers) and Can-Pack UK; the aluminium packaging producers and reprocessors, steel reprocessor Tata Steel and energy drink market leader Red Bull UK. It is supported by Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). It has been developed and is managed by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro)
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Every Can Counts partners
Alupro
The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) is a not-for-profit company which represents the leading aluminium packaging producers and reprocessors in the UK. www.alupro.org.uk
Beverage Can Makers Europe (BCME)
BCME (Beverage Can Makers Europe) is a not-for-profit making association whose prime objective is to promote the beverage can in Europe. The three members are: Ball Packaging Europe, Crown Bevcan Europe and Middle East and Rexam Beverage Can Europe & Asia. www.bcme.org
Can-Pack UK
CPUK is part of the Can-Pack group of companies (CP Group), with headquarters in Krakow, Poland. Can-Pack group is a leading supplier of metal and glass containers and metal closures. www.can-pack.co.uk/web.html
Novelis
Novelis operates Europe’s only dedicated used aluminium can recycling plant in Warrington, Cheshire. The plant has the capacity to recycle every aluminium can sold in the UK for the foreseeable future (currently 6.6 billion cans, which equates to approximately 101,000 tonnes in weight). www.novelisrecycling.co.uk
Red Bull
Red Bull established its business 23 years ago, in Austria. Nowadays, Red Bull Energy Drink is available in more than 160 countries and sold more than 4 billion times a year. To read more about the Red Bull can and it’s lifecycle please click on the link. www.redbull.co.uk
AG Barr
A .G. Barr p.l.c is the UK’s leading independent manufacturer of branded soft drinks with an annual turnover of over £237m. Established by Robert Barr in 1875, the company now produces a large range of soft drinks including IRN-BRU – which is seen by many as part of the culture of the Scottish Nation – Barr, Rubicon, KA, Strathmore Spring Water, Orangina (under a license agreement with The Orangina Schweppes Group) and Rockstar energy drink (under a license agreement with Rockstar Inc USA). The company employs over 900 people across 11 sites in the UK. Barr Soft Drinks were the first new Scottish signatory to the 2010 WRAP Courtauld Commitment phase 2 which aims to reduce the carbon impact of grocery packaging, reduce household food and drink and packaging wastes and encourage recycling. www.agbarr.co.uk
UK Canmakers
The UK Can Makers represents the UK manufacturers of beer and carbonated soft drinks cans. The organisation promotes the benefits of the drinks can and aids communications between the industry and its customers: the brewers and soft drinks manufacturers and the retailers, as well as the packaging industry, the media and consumers. www.canmakers.co.uk
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
WRAP helps individuals, businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change. www.wrap.org.uk
Zero Waste Scotland
Zero Waste Scotland works on behalf of the Scottish Government to support the delivery of its Zero Waste Plan. By working with businesses, individuals, communities and local authorities Zero Waste Scotland helps them reduce waste, recycle more and use resources sustainably.
Our work is designed to help Scotland meet its ambitious target of 70% recycling by 2025. Moving towards zero waste could benefit Scotland’s economy by an estimated £178 million, as well as tackling climate change.www.zerowastescotland.org.uk
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