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The google shall set you free --> http://www.cancentral.com/can-stats/statistics http://www.cancentral.com/can-stats/statistics At a quick glance I'd say, umm,

• YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago
  Yep, thanks, you're absolutely right. Though the numbers are only for the US, total number of empty beverage cans produced and shipped in the US and US-controlled territories in 1960 was 9.700 (billions or tonnes, I'm not sure, the unit is not in the table) and in 2010 it was 96.457. So there's been a ten-fold increase of production for an eight-fold decrease in aluminum used. Note the numbers are for total cans, which I think includes steel, but there's only aggregate data up to 1979. Data from this table from the page you linked: http://www.cancentral.com/sites/cancentral.com/files/public-documents/Bev_by_Years_1960_-_2010.pdf http://www.cancentral.com/sites/cancentral.com/files/public-... Fortunately, it seems that for other types of cans production went down. For example, total number of food cans was 34.600 in 1970 and 28.432 in 2010. This table: http://www.cancentral.com/sites/cancentral.com/files/public-documents/CMI_Food_History_-_1970_-_2010.pdf http://www.cancentral.com/sites/cancentral.com/files/public-... Again thanks, I should have looked it up myself :)