Metals (free drop off at our Swink Location): Aluminum, Steel, Copper, Brass, Tin Cans, Appliances (except for appliances with Freon), and other metals
Aluminum Facts:
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Recycling aluminum cans requires less than 5% of the energy required to make it from bauxite ore.
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Over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans are used every year.
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A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.
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Every minute an average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled.
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The aluminum in a can is worth about 1 cent.
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The average employee consumes 2.5 beverages a day while at work.
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Over 50 percent of the aluminum cans produced are recycled.
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Two-thirds of the aluminum ever produced is in use today.
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The energy you save by recycling a single aluminum can will run a TV for three hours.
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Approximately 350,000 aluminum cans are made in a minute.
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An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space — that’s almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
