Plastic bottles vs aluminium cans: Who’ll win the global water fight?

Aluminium cans might indeed mean less ocean waste, but they come with their own eco-price.

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French group Danone has become the latest company to make a move, telling Reuters it had started to replace some plastic bottles with aluminium cans for local water brands in Britain, Poland and Denmark.

Global bottled water giants are ramping up trials of easily recyclable aluminium cans to replace plastic that pollutes the world’s seas. Sound like a slam-dunk for the environment? Not entirely.