Over the past three years, we have worked with Ball - one of our largest can suppliers - to reduce the weight of our most common can formats (33 cl and 50 cl) by around 5% across more than 10 European markets. This lightweighting has reduced our value chain carbon footprint by approximately 5,000 tonnes per year.

Through our longstanding partnership with Ball, we are now implementing a joint set of actions to drive progress toward our shared sustainability ambitions. Lightweighting to reduce material use and lower carbon emissions is one key focus area within this broader effort.

“Partnering with suppliers who share our values and commitment is key to achieving our ambitious targets. Our collaboration with Ball has already delivered meaningful progress in lightweighting - a critical lever for reducing emissions and material use across our shared value chain. Now we are going further through joint efforts to increase the circularity of our cans.”

- Johan Keerberg, VP Group Procurement, Carlsberg Group

We are also working together to encourage consumers to return more used cans for recycling. Joint initiatives include a trial deposit return scheme in Serbia, and we have added the “Metal Recycles Forever” logo to cans in the market to emphasise the infinite recyclability of aluminium.

The cans supplied by Ball in Europe are already made of 62% recycled aluminium on average, achieved by a mix of pre- and post-consumer recycled material.

Promoting collection and recycling will help to increase availability of post-consumer recycled content and enable progress towards Carlsberg's and Ball's complementary targets for increased recycling rates and increased use of recycled content in cans by 2030.

“We are pleased to continue to partner with Carlsberg and collaborate on our aligned goals including a 90% recycling rate by 2030. Carbon reduction across our value chains is a key focus and lightweighting our cans is one way we have achieved this with Carlsberg, resulting in significant carbon savings in 2023. Our collaboration with Carlsberg will help us to meet our own Climate Transition Plan while delivering positive impact across our shared value chain.”

- Björn Kulmann, VP Sustainability, Ball Corporation