-> DW> I'm sure that if Coca Cola, the major breweries, and other drink 
-> DW> companies here in North America could save money by using steel cans, 
-> DW> then that's what they'd be doing. They don't, so they can't. 
->   
-> Or simply outlawed? But good point. 
->   
-> Could you do me a favor? Test a can there with a magnet please? And also the 
-> lid? 
->   
-> Out here, in almost all of the EU, they're made of steel with a coating on t 
-> inside.. It caused recycling issues when imported cans from other materials  
-> mixed in the waste stream. 
  
Steel cans aren't outlawed here. Imported beer often comes in them, as 
do other foodstuffs. 
  
I just looked in my fridge. I don't have any cans of drinks right now, 
so I can't do the magnet test. But I am quite certain that the normal 
cans in which pop, beer, etc., are sold are aluminum, including the 
lids. The recycling machinery uses magnets to separate ferrous metals 
from non-ferrous ones. Drink cans are the latter. 
  
                  dow 
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