Aluminum can manufacturers collected 217,350 pounds of beverage cans in challenge
Collection resulted in more than $179,400 donated to charity
Rexam’s Beverage Can North America (BCNA, rexam.com) Chicago office received first place in the Great American Can RoundUp (GACR) Industry Challenge by recycling more than 78,000 pounds of aluminum cans, which equates to more than 2.7 million beverage cans.
The GACR Industry Challenge, sponsored by the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI, cancentral.com), collected and recycled 217,350 pounds of beverage cans, raising more than $179,400 for local charities across the United States.