Waste less, recycle more with steel food cans

The CANtastic journey of a steel food can.

Purchasing

While at the store, you fill your cart with a delicious assortment of canned food products, lovingly sealed at peak freshness by infinitely recyclable steel cans.

Storing

Requiring zero refrigeration energy to store, the food inside your steel cans maintains peak freshness until you are ready to eat it. Which, along with built-in portion control, ultimately reduces food waste.

Recycling

After preparing an amazing meal for yourself and loved ones that includes some canned goods, you rinse out your steel cans and toss them into your recycling bin.

Collecting

Steel is collected by your friendly neighborhood recycling people and makes its way to a nearby recycling facility.

Sorting

As your steel food cans move along the conveyor belt at the Materials Recovery Facility, they are pulled out by a high-powered magnet, then collected to be shipped for processing.

Processing

Your steel food cans are melted in a furnace, along with various other scrap steel.

Converting

The melted steel is then cast into slabs and rolled into flat stock or steel sheets.

Manufacturing

The flat stock is cut into usable sections that are then made into various new steel products, everything from car parts to utensils to new steel food cans (of course!).