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How You Can Make a Difference
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Recycling aluminum cans saves precious natural resources and energy, helping our earth, as well as the economy. |
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Today aluminum can recycling saves enough electricity to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years. |
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Recycling one aluminum can, can save enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours. |
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If each person recycles one aluminum can in each month – 1750 to 3500 gallons of gas can be saved. |
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Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100 watt bulb burning for almost four hours. |
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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! |
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A used aluminum can - can be recycled, and back on the grocery shelf as a new can in as little as 60 days. Aluminum lying in our landfills will still be around in 200 or more years. |
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The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood and other products from trees. This amount to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year. |
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We could save about 250,000,000 trees each year, if we recycled all our newspapers. |
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The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. |
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Each ton of recycled paper can save: 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy. |
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Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. |
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17 saved trees can absorb a total of 250
pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. |
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