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Recycling benefits the environment by reducing waste and conserving our natural resources.

Aluminum has the highest recycling rate of any beverage container in North America with over 50 billion cans being recycled every year. Across the globe thanks to millions of people who are to committed recycling their aluminum beverage cans:

Recycling Rates (2003) Beverage Cans Recycled

Brazil 89% 9 billion

Asia 81% 27 billion

North America 54% 60 billion

Europe 48% 11 billion

Water -- Air -- Earth

The environmental advantages and benefits of recycling used aluminum beverage cans:

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Infinitely Recyclable

4Aluminum is 100% recyclable and can be used over and over again.

4Aluminum is recycled quickly - empty aluminum cans are recycled and back on store shelves in as few as 60 days.

•Energy Savings

4Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy needed to make aluminum from bauxite ore.

4Recycling one can saves enough energy to run your TV for 3 hours.

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•4Over 120,000 aluminum cans are recycled every minute in the United States.

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•Reduce Waste-Preserve the Environment

4Recycling aluminum cans saves 2 billion pounds in landfills each year.

•4Enough cans were recycled last year to fill a hollow Empire States Building 24 times.

•4Recycling aluminum creates 95 percent less air pollution and 97 percent less water pollution that producing new metal from ore.

4Over half of every new can is made from recycled aluminum.

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