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Alcoa recycles approximately 14 billion—that's billion, with a "B"—aluminum cans each year and would like to recycle more... but we need your help. Why is this so important? Because it takes 95% less energy to make a can out of recycled aluminum... and produces 95% less greenhouse gas. So if you're wondering what to do about climate change, you can start by cleaning your room. And recycling all the cans you dig up.
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Cream o' the scrap
Beverage containers represent less than 20 percent of the materials collected in curbside recycling programs and they generate up to 70 percent of total scrap value. Aluminum cans are the most valuable commodity to curbside programs helping to pay for the collection of other containers.
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