CANLAND RECYLING CENTER HOME ABOUT US FAQ TOUR FACTS CONTACT Recycling Facts With the modern 12 fluid ounce aluminum can it’ll take 31.8 cans to have one pound. Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to power a T.V. for 3 hours. 97% of all beverage cans(soda and beer) are aluminum. If your unsure if your beverage can is steel or aluminum, use a magnet, it will stick if it’s steel. North America is currently recycling around 2/3 of all their aluminum cans. Aluminum can recycling saves 95% of the energy needed, opposed to refining from raw aluminum (Bauxite ore). Current energy saved in one year from recycling aluminum cans in the USA would light the entire city of Denver,CO for more than 10 years. Using recycled aluminum beverage cans to produce new cans allows the aluminum can industry to make up to 20 times more cans using the same amount of energy. The energy saved in one year from recycled cans is equivalent to 20 million barrels of oil or 12 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. The aluminum beverage can returns to the grocer’s shelf as a new, filled can in as little as 90 days after collection, smelting, rolling, manufacturing, and distribution. America alone uses over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year. United States in two weeks produces enough cans, if stacked end on end, would be high enough to reach the moon. Making cans from recycled aluminum cuts related air pollution by 95%. Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. The aluminum can is the ideal container -Aluminum cans hold 2.5 times more beverage per cubic meter than a refillable bottle. This saves both storage and transportation space, which reduces energy consumption and gas exhaust emissions. The lightness of aluminum contributes to this also. Other advantages include being air-tight, hygienic, does not break, is easy to open, melts and cools fast, thus saving energy. Aluminum can be recycled over and over. The printing ink used is water-soluble and non-toxic, and a can cannot break to pieces. These facts above are related to the aluminum can recycling and usage in North America, There is lots of energy and pollution conservation to account for if you included other items such as screen doors, cooking ware, window frames, and lots of other recycled aluminum. Steel/Iron Everyday Americans use enough steel you could run a steel pipe line from New York to Los Angeles and back to New York Using recycled steel saves 74% of the energy opposed to producing them from raw material. On average a little more than 9,000 steel cans are removed from landfills with a magnet every minute An average American family throws out over 200 pounds of steel cans every month. In the U.S. the recycling of appliances in one year would be enough to build 160 football stadiums. Steel recycling saves enough energy that is equivalent to electrically power 1/5 of all homes in the U.S. Food cans usually contain a tin coating which is a valuable metal. 70% to 80% of this tin is recovered in the recycling process of food cans. Steel is the most used and recycled metal -Around 60% of all steel is recycled. Popular Steel items include automobiles, food cans, and appliances. All these items new will contain a minimum of 25% recycled steel. An almost full proof way to determine if an item is steel or not is by using a magnet, the magnet will stick to steel. Steel recycling has little if any money value to recycle but a tremendous value to our depleting earth and energy conservation. Paper, Plastic, Glass, an other materials 70% of energy is saved from using recycled paper opposed to new paper from a tree. To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers in the USA, 500,000 trees must be cut down.\ If everyone recycled their newspapers 250 million tree’s could be saved every year. It takes 15 years for a tree to produce just 700 grocery bags. 2 billion tree’s are cut down every year just for manufacturing in the USA. One person on average will use up 7 trees a year using products made from tree’s 1 billion tree’s worth of just paper is thrown in the trash every year 100 acres of rain forest are cut down every minute. 20 species of plant life and animals are forced into extinction every week. At the bottom of plastic containers you’ll find a number code which will help you separate your containers accordingly. Plastic trash thrown into waters kill over 1 million creatures every year. The energy saved from one recycled glass bottle will run a 100 watt light bulb for 4 hours The importance of recycling -This is just a portion of the benefits to recycling and a portion of recyclable materials. 75% of all “trash” can be recycled. Recycling benefits our energy resources, fuel, our earth, and our future. Who knows you may make a little cash along the way and with all the energy we could save through recycling maybe one day we could drive down the cost of electricity to our homes. PLEASE RECYCLE ! Home Page CANLAND RECYCLING 6141 N. Federal Blvd. Denver, CO 80221 Copyright © 2021 // Canland Recycling Center // Site by Redfish Bluefish Media