Today I am going to talk about recycling your aluminum cans!
Here are some interesting facts:
*Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
* More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
* Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
* There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
* Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans.
* We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
* At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
(info from http://members.aol.com/ramola15/funfacts.html)
In most towns there is a metal recycling facility. In Winder, we have Orr's recycling. Ben and I both have areas at our work places for people to put their cans, we then collect them, along with ours once a month and take it to Orr's recycling. We usually get about $10/month. When you have a grocery budget of $60 a week, $10 is a lot of money.
Here are some interesting facts:
*Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
* More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
* Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
* There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
* Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans.
* We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
* At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
(info from http://members.aol.com/ramola15/funfacts.html)
In most towns there is a metal recycling facility. In Winder, we have Orr's recycling. Ben and I both have areas at our work places for people to put their cans, we then collect them, along with ours once a month and take it to Orr's recycling. We usually get about $10/month. When you have a grocery budget of $60 a week, $10 is a lot of money.
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