Novelis has once again demonstrated its recycling leadership in North America by recycling 24 billion used beverage cans (UBCs) in 2006. Annually, Novelis recycles about 45 percent of all UBCs collected in the United States and Canada through its recycling plants in Berea, Ky., Oswego, N.Y., and Greensboro, Ga. The Berea plant is the world's largest facility dedicated to UBC recycling.

Recycling aluminum provides valuable economic, environmental, and social benefits. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, meaning that the cans recycled by Novelis are manufactured back into new can sheet in a closed-loop process than can be repeated forever. On a global scale, Novelis recycled a record 38 billion UBCs in 2006, which translates to more than 500,000 metric tons of aluminum.

Aluminum produced from recycled cans only uses about five percent of the energy required to produce the material from raw materials, so it produces 95 percent less emissions such as greenhouse gasses and conserves such natural resources as bauxite and water. Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to power a television set for three hours.