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Canned and Crushed Discussion Questions
Did You Know?
- Every three months, Americans throw enough aluminum in the landfills to build our nation’s entire commercial air fleet.
- The average person has the opportunity to recycle more than 25,000 cans in a lifetime.
- Recycling a single aluminum can saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
- It requires 95% less energy and water to recycle a can than it does to create a can from virgin materials.
Sources: http://recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-facts
Fun Facts About Recycling
- Fact 1: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod.
- Fact 2: Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks.
- Fact 3: Aluminum cans can actually be recycled and put back onto the shelf at your local grocery store in just about 2 months.
- Fact 4: Aluminum cans are probably the most recycled item, at least in the United States. While this is true, you can also recycle other forms of aluminum as well.
- Fact 5: Recycling an aluminum can help to save a great deal of energy, in fact, enough to run your home television for about three hours!
- Fact 6: Most beverage cans are made up of aluminum, even though there are other products that go into it as well.
- Fact 7: If you throw away your aluminum cans, they can stay in that can form for up to 500 years or more- so recycling is the way to go.
- Fact 8: Variety of raw materials including paper, plastic, metal, glass, electronics and textiles can be recycled.
- Fact 9: You can recycle aluminum over and over again, and there is really no limit to it.
- Fact 10: There are over 80 billion aluminum cans used each and every year around the world.
- Fact 11: Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold, many years ago.
Source: http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-recycling-facts.php
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