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Recycling of used aluminum beverage cans in Japan

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OSTI ID:197282
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  1. Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Tokyo (Japan)

Both sales volume of aluminum cans and the recycling rate are remarkably increasing in Japan. In 1993, recycled can volume was 11.78 billion cans (116,258 metric tons) and its recycling rate 57.8 percent. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, the leading manufacturer of aluminum cans in Japan, and their affiliated companies are very deeply involved in recycling used beverage cans (U.B.C) and recycling them back to can stock. In this paper, the author presents the following: (1) recent trends of beverage can consumption in Japan; (2) trend of aluminum cans and recycling rate in Japan; and (3) future of the aluminum can business in Japan.

OSTI ID:
197282
Report Number(s):
CONF-951105--; ISBN 0-87339-318-X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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