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How Diageo is creating a circular aluminium supply chain

The drinks giant is funding a facility which will supply enough recycled aluminium to make over 400m Guinness and pre-mixed gin and tonics cans.

The company has denied profiteering, claiming instead it has absorbed costs to “protect customers from the full force of inflation”.

Estimates for box production found output fell 71% year-on-year, with annual levels expected to match those of "recession-ravaged 2009".

One in five of the retailer's 100,000 supplier agreements were operating on generic contracts, until the firm deployed a negotiation bot.

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