The empty aluminum can is worth about 1 cent.The average employee consumes 2.5 beverages a day while at work.Due to advanced technology to use less material and increase durability of aluminum cans, in 2002 it takes about 34 empty aluminum cans to weigh one pound. In 1972, it took about 22 empty, aluminum cans to weigh one pound.In 1998, the amount increased to over 879,000 metric tons. In 1972, 24,000 metric tons of aluminum used beverage containers (UBCs) were recycled.Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can's volume of gasoline.Last year 54 billion cans were recycled saving energy equivalent to 15 million barrels of crude oil - America's entire gas consumption for one day.Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours or run your television for three hours.Making new aluminum cans from used cans takes 95 percent less energy and 20 recycled cans can be made with the energy needed to produce one can using virgin ore.Every minute of everyday, an average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled.Aluminum is a durable and sustainable metal: 2/3 of the aluminum ever produced is in use today.That's closed loop recycling at its finest! A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.Over 50% of the aluminum cans produced are recycled.Aluminum recycling is one of the most efficient forms of recycling, because recycling aluminum takes about 95 percent less energy than creating aluminum materials from virgin materials.
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