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Aluminum
Cans
DO:
Empty and Crush
DON'T:
Include Steel, tin, aerosol or
paint cans.
Foil, pie plates or dinner trays.
Plastic or glass bottles.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Every three months, Americans throw
away enough aluminum to rebuild the entire U.S.
commercial air fleet.
- Twenty aluminum cans can be
recycled with the amount of energy required to make
one new can from raw ore.
- Using recycled aluminum instead of
raw materials reduced air pollution by 95%, water
pollution by 97%, and energy use by about 95%.
- Currently, every aluminum can is
made from an average of 54.1% post-consumer recycled
aluminum.
- It takes 7.5 kilowatt hours of
electricity to produce one pound of virgin metal
from the ore. When aluminum is melted down and
recycled, 95% of that electricity is saved.
- The energy saved from one recycled
can will operate a television set for 3 hours.
- Aluminum cans are recycled to make
more aluminum cans, or building materials like
aluminum siding.
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