Can Manufacturers Institute

Thank you ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership for recognizing CMI as a 2024 #PowerOfAssociations Award winner! Our #MillionCans Recycling Contest received the Gold Award, one of the top honors! This recognition would not be possible without the support of our Can Manufacturers Institute members, Recycling is like Magic!, and the more than 900 students and teachers who pitched in to help recycle empty aluminum beverage cans! See the full list of The Power of Associations winners here: https://lnkd.in/eaba6CyF #ASAEsummitawards #sustainability #recycling

Congratulations to Scott Breen, CMI’s senior vice president of sustainability, as he enters a new volunteer leadership role as chairman of the board for The Recycling Partnership! Scott will join several newly elected leaders to The Partnership’s board of directors. Together, they will expand the organization’s reach, furthering the mission to build a better recycling system that delivers environmental and economic benefits for America’s communities! Read more about this exciting new leadership role: https://lnkd.in/eX2safKG

It was great to meet Rep. Andrea Salinas and Rep. Josh Harder during the summer growing season! From a Pacific Coast Producers canned cherry facility in Oregon to a peach orchard in California, America’s farmers and food producers are working hard to pick and pack essential produce. American consumers overwhelmingly seek to purchase American grown and packaged foods. They also deserve the right to easily know whether their canned foods come from the United States.

A fascinating presentation from Robert Budway (Can Manufacturers Institute) detailed their ongoing efforts to protect and promote rigid metal packaging in the US and beyond. #MetalRecyclesForever, #MetalPackaging, #SustainablePackaging, #Circularity

Congrats to the 8 elementary schools that rocked the #MillionCans Recycling Contest!♻️Combined they collected more than 1.3 million empty aluminum beverage cans! Special thanks to our CMI members that supported this project and our partner Scrap University Kids for their commitment! And now, drumroll please! 🥁🎉 The top-3 schools that collected the most cans (per students participating) are… 🏆1st Place: Yankeetown Elementary will receive a $3,000 prize! 🏆2nd Place: Lewisburg Elementary will receive a $1,000 prize! 🏆3rd Place: Rich Pond Elementary will receive a $500 prize! 🌟Let's celebrate their awesome efforts in making such a difference! https://bit.ly/4btXpXL

Please welcome the latest can capture robot! LRS has installed EverestLabs.AI #RecycleOS technology. This program is supported by funding from two CMI members: Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings, Inc. This leased robot will boost revenue and efficiency for LRS by capturing used beverage cans at its material recovery facility (MRF) that otherwise would have been missorted. MRFs are where single-stream recyclables are sorted into commodities for sale to recyclers. The robot assists in LRS maintaining quality control for more than 350,000 pounds of recycled aluminum each month, approximately 12 million aluminum beverage cans! The lease program is the latest in a several-year CMI effort to demonstrate the additional revenue for the recycling system through capturing missorted used beverage cans: https://lnkd.in/e6UFsq3U

CMI's Scott Breen will be presenting at the CRU World Aluminium Conference in London on May 15. His presentation will address the opportunity for the metal can industry to enhance its global collaboration on major sustainability issues.  The 29th World Aluminium Conference co-hosted by the International Aluminium Institute and the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative gathers over 360 leading executives and decision-makers from the primary, secondary, extruded, rolled products, end use, trading and financial sectors attended in 2023, representing 170 companies from 42 countries, making the event a great opportunity to network. https://bit.ly/4blzVUj #CRUaluminium

Look at these beautiful cans 😍♻️🥫🥫🥫from Pleasant Hill Elementary in Mississippi!!! 🏫🚸❤️ Keep up the amazing work in The MILLION Cans Recycling Contest! ♻️🥫🌈🦄🥳 https://lnkd.in/gq7w8zW2 #millioncans #recyclingmatters #education #aluminum #cans Can Manufacturers Institute Jessica Alexanderson Brad W. Rudover Shaziya Manji Jaffer Iskiwitz Metals NESBIT RECYCLING LLC Mississippi Recycling Coalition Ardagh Metal Packaging

Ever wonder why we drink beer from cans? Food & Wine explores the history of the beer can, and what makes it such an innovative product. You can also learn more! https://lnkd.in/ecSusdmN

CMI is calling on President Biden and Congress to protect U.S. steel can makers and canned food companies from China’s subsidized and unfairly priced can components and canned food imports. At risk are tens of thousands of American manufacturing jobs. Three actions are required to protect U.S. steel can manufacturing, canned food companies and, ultimately, the consumer. https://lnkd.in/eyxF6893