Four billion drinks cans used per year in France.

Posted on April 26, 2014 by bill

Les canettes, une vraie mine!

le Samedi 26 Avril 2014

Les Français aiment les boissons en canettes. Nous en produisons beaucoup, et nous en consommons près de 4 milliards chaque année. Ces boites sont précieuses pour la métallurgie. The French like their drinks in cans. We make many, and we consume close to 4 billion every year. These can boxes are precious for metallurgie recycling.

Les canettes : recyclables à l’infini…. © © Luke Pickering – Fotolia.com – Radio France

On les appelle canettes, ou encore boites boisson. Il en a été rempli près de 5 milliards en France en 2013. Le marché se porte bien, il affiche même des taux de croissance insolents. Mais il se porterait encore mieux si les consommateurs prenaient conscience de la véritable mine que représentent les canettes vides. Qu’elles soient en acier ou en aluminium, les canettes sont recyclables à 100%, et à l’infini. 

Les canettes permettent toutes les formes, toutes les couleurs, tous les volumes. C’est ce qui explique la croissance de ce marché depuis plusieurs années à un rythme de 3% par an.

C’est un contenant léger, il pèse moins de 20 grammes. Mais ajoutées les unes aux autres, les canettes vides représentent rapidement des tonnes de matière première qui ne demandent qu’à être réutilisées.

Voilà pourquoi chaque canette compte. C’est le titre d’une campagne lancée par les industriels de la métallurgie, en partenariat avec Eco emballage. Des containers sont mis à la disposition des consommateurs, sur leur lieu de travail, ou à l’occasion de manifestations sportives ou culturelles, ou dans les parcs d’attraction. Le but : ne rien perdre de ce précieux minerai. Une canette vide peut se retrouver dans une aile d’avion. C’est plus glamour que l’enfouissement ou l’incinération…

 

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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