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That over 50% of the aluminum cans produced are recycled? |
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Aluminum is a durable and sustainable metal: ⅔ of the aluminum ever produced is in use today. |
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Every minute of every day, an average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled. |
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Making new aluminum cans from used cans takes 95% less energy. Recycling twenty cans equals the energy needed to produce one can using virgin ore. |
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Last year 54 billion cans were recycled saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil – America’s entire gas consumption for one day. |
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In 1972 it took about 22 empty aluminum cans to weigh one pound. Due to today’s advanced technology, it takes about 34 empty aluminum cans to weigh one pound. |
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For nearly 5000 years, copper was the only metal known to man. Today it is one of the most used and reused of our “modern” metals. |
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Known worldwide, copper resources are estimated at nearly 5.8 trillion pounds…of which only about 0.7 trillion pounds (12%) have been mined throughout history. Nearly all of that is still in circulation, because copper’s recycling rate is higher than that of any other engineering metal. |
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The U.S. does not depend on foreign copper...we are completely self-sufficient. |
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In the U.S. paper products are the largest component of municipal solid waste, making up 31-38% of the composition of landfills. |
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51.5% of the paper consumed in the U.S. in 2005 was recovered for recycling. That’s over 51 million tons of paper and paper products being recovered for recycling. |
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The U.S. paper industry has set a goal to recover 55% of all the paper consumed in the U.S. by 2012. Over 90% of all products in the U.S. are shipped in corrugated cardboard boxes. |
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70% of all corrugated cardboard is recovered for recycling...the largest source of waste paper collected for recycling. |
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Corrugated cardboard from recycled pulp uses about 75% of the manufacturing energy as compared to processing from virgin pulp. |
