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Aluminum cans are  the economic backbone of most recycling centers including ours. 

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Aluminum bales ready for market

We collect all types of aluminum cans. 

Please place all aluminum foils or other aluminum products in our Scrap Metal container.

Here are some fun facts about aluminum:

•Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
•Mined from bauxite, aluminum is the most abundant metal on earth.
•Twenty years ago it took 19 aluminum cans to make one pound, but today, aluminum beverage cans are thinner and lighter, requiring 29 cans to make a pound.
•In 1994, Americans recycled 64.7 billion aluminum cans, two billion more than in 1993.
•Every minute of every day, nearly 125,000 aluminum cans are recycled.
•Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can’s volume of gasoline.
•Twenty recycled cans are made with the energy needed to produce one can from virgin ore.
•Recycling a single aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours, or to power a television for three hours.

More Links to Aluminum Can Recycling Information and Facts:

Earth 911: Recycling aluminum cans: The aluminum can is the most valuable beverage container to recycle and it is the most recycled consumer product in the U.S. today. Recycling aluminum cans provides environmental, economic, and community benefits to communities and organizations across the country.

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Last modified: February 28, 2007