In Europe, aluminium and steel are used as materials for beverage cans. Cans have undergone considerable lightweighting programmes in recent years and today are more than 40% lighter than they were in 1970.
Forty years ago a can weighed around 80 grams, today a 330ml steel can weighs around 21 grams and an aluminium can may weigh as little as 10 grams. As a result the industry can produce almost three times as many cans using the same amount of metal as 30 years ago.
