Focus Sustainability

As sustainability evolves and becomes increasingly significant within and beyond our organization, Silgan Metal Packaging recognizes its crucial responsibility within the circular economy and across the entire value chain to fulfill its commitment to a sustainable future that addresses, but is not confined to, issues related to climate change. As a leading provider of sustainable metal packaging, Silgan Metal Packaging has set the goal of making a significant contribution to a more environmentally friendly world.

Our approach is to rethink metal packaging throughout our day-to-day operations with the engagement of all our stakeholders. Our metal packaging solutions are not only particularly robust and safe but also almost 100 percent recyclable — over and over again, without quality loss. In fact, metal is the most frequently recycled packaging material in the EU and can be continuously recycled without performance degradation. With innovative packaging solutions, intelligent design principles, and a clear focus on the circular economy, we contribute to minimizing the ecological footprint of our customers and our products.

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Eventually, under the direction of Silgan Holdings Inc., this approach will allow us to communicate our key performance indicators and our progress regarding them with accuracy, dependability, and credibility, utilizing a robust, data-driven strategy to tackle our most critical sustainability-related challenges.

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Metal is the most frequently recycled packaging 
material in the EU, which underscores its sustainability.

The recycling rate of metal packaging is an impressive 84 percent in the ​EU27 + Norway, Switzerland and the UK.

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