Aluminum

Where it goes: Anheuser-Busch - California
What it becomes: aluminum cans

In 2009, Sedona Recycles recycled 33 tons of aluminum, saving:
44,179 gallons of oil
322 cubic yards of landfill space

Aluminum Recycling Facts

• We save enough energy by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours.

• Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one can out of new material. Energy savings in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years. .

• Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

• When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the same can half-full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.

• More than 50% of a new aluminum can is made from recycled aluminum.

• The 36 billion aluminum cans landfilled last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million. (Some day we'll be mining our landfills for the resources we've buried.)

• Aluminum can be recycled forever without degrading in quality.

• About 70% of all metal is used just once and discarded. The remaining 30% is recycled. After five cycles, one-fourth of 1% of the metal remains in circulation.