microbrewery embraces aluminum can with at least 90 recycled content for its craft beers, citing the can&rsquos sustainability benefits for the brewery and for the community.by anne marie mohan, senior editor, packaging worldsouthboundevercanenlargesouthbound brewing company, savannah&rsquos first production microbrewery, has become the latest craft brewery to offer its beer in aluminum cans made from novelis&rsquo evercan&trade, the world&rsquos first and only certified highrecycled content aluminum can sheet.&ldquowe founded southbound to bring the innovation and excitement of the american craft beer revolution to savannah and the southeast,&rdquo says carly wiggins, director, marketing and sales, southbound brewing company. &ldquowhen we learned about evercan, the industry&rsquos only lowcarbon, certified highrecycled content packaging, we knew we had to make the switch&mdashfor the sustainability of our brewery and our local community. it was the right thing to do.&rdquosouthbound will now can its yearround brews, hop&rsquolin ipa and scattered sun belgian wit, in evercan. both brews will be available in evercan on store shelves in georgia, south carolina, and florida in midapril 2015.as part of the brewery&rsquos commitment to sustainable innovation, southbound is one of nearly 50 craft breweries across the country that have signed the brewery climate declaration, a declaration created by sustainability nonprofit ceres, mobilizing leaders in business and industry to show their commitment to creating a more sustainable world. signatories of the climate declaration are taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, use less energy, choose clean energy sources, and invest in new technologies in an effort to help combat climate change. also a signatory of the climate declaration, novelis has committed to cutting its ghg emissions in half by 2020 through recycling.novelis evercan is made by recycling used beverage cans and contains a minimum 90 certified recycled content. notes novelis, recycling aluminum requires 95 less energy and produces 95 fewer ghg emissions than manufacturing primary aluminum. 
