1. Used aluminum cans are recycled and returned to a store shelf as a new can in as few as 60 days. That means you could potentially purchase the same recycled aluminum can 6 times per year.
2. Americans earn about $1 Billion a year recycling aluminum cans. That's enough cans to stretch to the moon and back 8 times!
3. Aluminum begins to melt at 1220 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. The average person consumes 2.5 cans of soda each day at work.
5. Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to run a television for three hours.6. Every 3 seconds a baby is born. In that time, 140 cans were born.
7. The average American family recycles 150 six packs of aluminum cans a year.
8. Americans drink an average of 380 beverages in aluminum cans each year.
Source:
Can Manufacturers Institute
www.cancentral.com
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