One of the best ways to protect the environment is to reduce waste, save energy and preserve the planet’s natural resources.
Buying canned food is a great option if you want to make some simple, nutritious and tasty meals – but they are also a great environmental choice.
Did you know …
Recycling
All food cans are made from steel or aluminium produced with over 50% recycled material.
All metal cans can be recycled again and again and again……they are 100% recyclable , so you don’t need to worry if you have different types of cans in your recycling bin.
Recycled cans can be used to make more cans or other metal goods like fridges or cars.
If your local council doesn’t kerb collect your recycled cans, you will find can banks at all local council sites and in many supermarket car parks.
Waste
According to government figures, we throw away over 40% of the food we buy.
The long shelf life of canned foods means you only need cook what you want when you want which reduces food waste.
Recycling metal cans means less packaging ending up in landfill sites.
To help further reduce food waste; empty any unused contents into a suitable container and store in the fridge as fresh. And don’t forget to recycle your can!
Energy
All canned foods are already cooked in the can so you only need to heat them up which saves both time and energy.
Canned foods have a long shelf life so can be used straight from the shelf with no need for chilling or freezing which saves more energy – and saves you money.
Recycling cans saves energy otherwise used to source more virgin materials like iron ore and coke to make more steel cans – it also reduces CO2 emissions.
Every steel can recycled saves twice its own weight in CO2.
One of the best ways to protect the environment is to reduce waste, save energy and preserve the planet’s natural resources.
