Nearly 2.8 billion units of canned food were sold in the UK in 2024 (Source: The Grocer / Kantar 26 Jan 2025)
99.4% of UK households buy from the canned food category each year (Source: Kantar).
A survey (2017) of 2000 consumers conducted by MPMA in the UK showed that sixty per cent of families claim they can’t live without baked beans; fifty per cent feel the same way about tinned tomatoes and 38 per cent about tinned tuna or salmon. A quarter also say they’re unable to live without tinned soup.
Canned food plays an important role in helping households eat well, waste less and stay prepared.
Recycling rates
United Kingdom:
Steel: 86.6% (Source gov.uk2024)
Aluminium: 81% of beverage cans, 68.5% of all aluminium packaging (Source: Alupro2023 & gov.uk2024)
Europe:
Steel Packaging: 84% (Source SfPE2024)
Aluminium beverage cans 76.3% (Source MPE & EA 2023 )
It is estimated that around 75% of all metal ever produced is still in circulation today.
