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Why should you Recycle aluminum
Cans?
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2.5
million dollars is paid each day to someone for recycled beverage cans?
Are you sharing in this reward?
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More
than 50% of new cans are made from recycled aluminum?
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It
takes 95% less energy to create a new can from recycled can instead of using raw
materials?
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An
estimated 55 Billion cans were recycled last year?
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The
energy saved from that amounted to more than 20 million barrels of oil, enough
energy to run a major city for one year.
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Saving
aluminum cans help save space in landfills.
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Saving
aluminum cans will add income to your budget
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Why
not turn this trash into your treasures?
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Recycling one aluminum can saves
enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a
gallon of gasoline.
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350,000 aluminum cans are produced
every minute!
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More aluminum goes into beverage
cans than any other product.
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Once an aluminum can is recycled,
it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
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Because so many of them are
recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total
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During the time it takes you to
read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
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An aluminum can that is thrown
away will still be a can 500 years from now!
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There is no limit to the amount of
times an aluminum can may be recycled.
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Aluminum can manufacturers have
been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum produced 22 cans;
today it yields 29 cans.
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We use over 80,000,000,000
aluminum pop cans every year.
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At one time, aluminum was more
valuable than gold!
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A 60-watt light bulb can be run
for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In
one year in the
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Every ton of recycled steel saves
2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.