Dining Services
Cans
We recycle
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all aluminum beverage cans
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all steel or bimetal beverage or food cans
Facts about cans
Aluminum & other metal recycling
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Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to run a computer for 3 hours or a TV for 2 hours.
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Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial airline fleet every three months. The University of Colorado Environmental Center
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Aluminum is 100% recyclable meaning no matter how many times you recycle aluminum it can be recycled again and again.
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It takes 8,760 pounds of bauxite and 1,020 pounds of oil to produce 2,000 pounds of aluminum.
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When recycled aluminum is used instead of bauxite and oil the amount of raw material needed drops 95%.
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The average person in the United States throws away 6 pounds of steel cans each month.
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Recycling steel saves 74% of the energy that would be used to produce them from virgin materials.
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Everyday Americans use 100 million steel cans.
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Americans throw out enough steel and iron to continually supply all the automakers.
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The U.S. is going from a world leader in used beverage can (UBC) recycling to an also-ran. The U.S. 2001 55.4 percent UBC recycling rate places it well behind neighboring Canada (70 percent) and distantly trailing Brazil with its 85 percent rate. Report from Recycling Today, 25 Sep 02
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Every day Americans use enough steel and tin cans to make a steel pipe running from Los Angeles to New York... and back!
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Steel cans package 97% of canned food on the market.
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The St. Thomas Recycling Center uses a magnetic conveyer belt to separate aluminum cans from steel ones. The aluminum cans are crushed in a crusher so that more cans can be stored between deliveries to the processor.
