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 Aluminum, Steel & Tin CansAcceptable Materials - Aluminum Bottles & Cans
- Steel, Tin & Bi Metal Cans
- Empty Aerosol Cans
Prepare for Discarding-Place in Single Stream Recycling Container- Empty & Rinse Tin Cans.
- Labels can remain on cans.
- ALL METAL CANS MUST BE EMPTY
- Cut out ends and flatten (do not puncture aerosols)
Do Not Recycle- Aluminum Pans or Foil
- Empty Paint Cans
- Large/bulky Scrap Metal Items
Aluminum & Steel Can Recycling Facts:- The average aluminum can in the U.S. contains 40% post-consumer recycled aluminum
- It requires only 5% as much energy when a can is made of recycled aluminum as compared to virgin ore
- The lifespan of an aluminum can is 6 weeks on average: that means that the time it takes for a beverage can to be manufactured, filled, sold, recycled and remanufactured is 6 weeks on average
- In 1994, approximately 53.1% of all steel cans and 27.8% of steel packaging materials, such as strapping, were recycled
- The average American uses 142 steel cans per year
- Tin cans are actually 99% steel with a thin layer of tin added to prevent rusting
- One hundred million aluminum beverage cans are landfilled, littered or incinerated every day in the U.S. which is more than 500,000 tons of aluminum cans annually worth more than $600 million
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