Aluminum Can Recycling Rates Increasing
by Ashley Schiller on July 23rd, 2008
Aluminum can recycling rates increased by 2.2 percent in 2007, the largest gain in 10 years, reports Business Wire.
The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries made the announcement on July 21. Nearly 54 billion aluminum cans were recycled in 2007, about two billion more than in the previous year.
Recycling cans saves energy, said Robert Budway, president of the Can Manufacturing Institute. He told Business Wire recycling 40 aluminum beverage cans has the energy-saving equivalent of one gallon of gasoline. During 2007, Americans recycled enough aluminum cans to conserve the energy equivalent of over 15 million barrels of oil.
Aluminum cans are the most recycled beverage container in the U.S. and can be recycled indefinitely.
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