Metal Recycling Fun Facts
•Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energy used to make them from raw material.
•Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
•Americans throw out enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the auto makers in the entire nation.
•A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces water pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by about 70 percent.
•When you throw away an aluminum can, you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the can half full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.
•Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, and a TV for 2 hours.
•Metal can be recycled unlimited times. Paper can be recycled four to seven times. (ISRI)
•Steel recycling is responsible for saving some 900 million tones of carbon dioxide emissions every year. (BIR)
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