Case Study
Life Cycle Assessment of Beverage Packaging
Life Cycle Assessment of Beverage Packaging: Pathways to a Circular, Low-Carbon Future ®2020 Sphera. All Rights Reserved. CASE S TUD Y Broomfield, CO (HQ) Packaging and Aerospace Founded in: 1880 18,300+ Employees worldwide $11.5 billion Net sales in 2019 100+ Locations OVERVIEW Ball Corporation manufactures billions of aluminum cans each year and aims to be the best steward of their products across their life cycles. To explore and improve sustainability credentials, Ball invested in a thorough and peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of their own as well as competing products. By conducting an LCA study, Ball identified the environmental hotspots of the aluminum can and compared the can with competing beverage packaging options. The assessment captured beverage packag