- The modern 12 fluid ounce aluminum can, it takes 31.8 cans to equal one pound.
- Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to power a T.V. for 3 hours.
- 97% of all beverage cans are aluminum.
- Aluminum cans do not stick to a magnet, steel cans do.
- North America is currently recycling 2/3 of their aluminum cans.
- Aluminum cans uses 95% less energy over 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,CO 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 product in as little as 90 days after
collection, smelting, rolling, manufacturing and distribution.
- America alone uses over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
- United States in two weeks produces enough cans, if stacked end on end, would be tall enough 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.
