Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

Summary by Krater

An explanation of why Hawaii uses differently sized can lids compared to the rest of the world, concluding that high shipping costs and remote logistics make changing existing can infrastructure economically unfeasible.

From the video

Answers: Why does Hawaii use different can lids?

• can lid sizing
• aluminum manufacturing economics
• supply chain logistics
• beverage packaging

What it concludes

• Up to 94 percent of a soda can's contents consists of carbonated water
• Aloha Metal Beverage Packaging Plant in Kapolei, Oahu makes about a quarter of the 180 billion cans manufactured worldwide every year
• Changing can manufacturing equipment and bottling plants to suit larger lids is too expensive in remote regions like Hawaii