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If you're going to keep beer cans out of the recycling bin, you'd better have a good reason.
This would be it: a house in the Houston suburbs sided with more than 50,000 UBCs.
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Some day maybe all cars will be this recyclable
Art student and sculptor Jack Kriby used 5000 Budweiser cans in this tribute to his favorite car, the 1965 Mustang.
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It's almost like getting free electricity
Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy used to make aluminum cans from virgin ore.
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Thanks for recycling
In 1972, 53 million pounds of aluminum cans were recycled. Today, that amount is exceeded by 1,612 million pounds.
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Think of the noise THAT makes
Aluminum cans distinguish themselves as the most recycled and most recyclable beverage container in the world. An awesome 105,784 cans are recycled every minute nationwide.
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You could name it 'Fred'
Used aluminum cans are recycled and returned to a store shelf as a new can in as few as 60 days. That means a consumer could purchase basically the same recycled aluminum can from a retailer's shelf nearly every 9 weeks or 6 times a year.
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Anchors aweigh
The weight of 1,665 million pounds of aluminum cans recycled in 2001 was equal to the weight of 14 aircraft carriers.
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Cha-ching!
Americans earn about $1 billion a year recycling aluminum cans. A used aluminum can returned to a recycling center is worth about a penny to consumer recyclers.
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Unless of course you are air conditioning the whole neighborhood
For each pound of aluminum recovered, Americans save the energy resources to generate about 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's enough energy to meet the electric needs of a city the size of Pittsburgh, PA for six years.
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Cream o' the scrap
Beverage containers represent less than 20 percent of the materials collected in curbside recycling programs and they generate up to 70 percent of total scrap value. Aluminum cans are the most valuable commodity to curbside programs helping to pay for the collection of other containers.
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Less filling
Recycling diverted 1.7 billion pounds from landfills.
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The case for recycling
Using recycled aluminum beverage cans to produce new cans allows the aluminum can industry to make up to 20 times more cans for the same amount of energy.
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Houston, we have a solution
It's estimated that since 1972 some 18.7 million tons of aluminum have been recycled. These 1,099 billion aluminum cans placed end-to-end could stretch to the moon and back some 174 times.
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Keep one in your trunk just in case
Aluminum cans have amazing strength. Four six-packs (24 cans) can hold a 4,000-pound aluminum-bodied sedan.
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But then we couldn't recycle them
In 2003, Americans recycled 62.6 billion aluminum cans. Those cans, placed end-to-end, could make 171 circles around the earth.
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That's a lot of Benjamins
Since 1972 Americans have recycled 37 billion lbs. or 1,099 trillion aluminum cans and earned over $25 billion by recycling aluminum beverage cans.
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Yes, it IS hot in here
When you think it is hot, consider the following: Did you know that aluminum begins to melt at a whopping 1220 degrees Fahrenheit?
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The pause that refreshes
The average employee consumes 2.5 cans of soda each day at work.
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