Domestic U.S. consumer scrap recycling rate of aluminum cans 2011-2018
In 2014, 56.1 percent of the volume of U.S. aluminum cans shipped within the country was domestically recycled by consumers. Since then, this figure has decreased to approximately 49.8 percent in 2018. This consumer rate excludes imported can scrap and accounts for movement of unfilled cans into and out of the United States.
