Facts about Recycling Aluminum

- With the modern 12 fluid ounce aluminum can it'll take 32.8 cans to make one pound. - Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to power a T.V. for 3 hours. - 97% of all beverage cans (soda and beer) are aluminum. - If you're unsure if your can is steel or aluminum, use a magnet; it will stick if it's steel. - North America is currently recycling around 2/3 of all their aluminum cans. - Aluminum can recycling saves 95% of the energy needed, opposed to refining from raw aluminum (Bauxite ore). - Current energy saved in one year from recycling aluminum cans in the USA would light the entire city of Denver for more than 10 years. - Using recycled aluminum beverage cans to produce new cans allows the aluminum can industry to make up to 20 times more cans using the same amount of energy. - The energy saved in one year from recycled cans is equivalent to 20 million barrels of oil, or 12 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. - The aluminum beverage can returns to the grocer's shelf as a new, filled can in as little as 90 days after collection, smelting, rolling, manufacturing, and distribution. - America alone uses over 80,000,000,000 (80 Billion) aluminum pop cans every year. - The United States, in two weeks, produces enough cans, if stacked end on end, to reach the moon. - Making cans from recycled aluminum cuts related air pollution by 95%. - Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

The aluminum can is the ideal container -Aluminum cans hold 2.5 times more beverage per cubic meter than a refillable bottle. This saves both storage and transportation space, which reduces energy consumption and gas exhaust emissions. The lightness of aluminum contributes to this also. Other advantages include being air-tight, hygienic, does not break, is easy to open, melts and cools fast, thus saving energy. Aluminum can be recycled over and over. The printing ink used is water-soluble and non-toxic, and a can cannot break to pieces. These facts above are related to the aluminum can recycling and usage in North America, There is lots of energy and pollution conservation to account for if you included other items such as screen doors, cooking ware, window frames, and lots of other recycled aluminum.

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