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Interesting facts about Aluminum
- An aluminum smelter uses so much electricity
that it may need its own electrical power plant.
- In
2001, 55.4% of the 100.3 billion aluminum cans produced in America
were recycled – that’s a total of 55.6 billion cans.
This produced around 1.7 billion pounds of aluminum for recycling.
- Every
aluminum beverage can in America has an average of 51.1% recycled
content.
- In 2001 the aluminum industry
paid out $850 million to recyclers for their used aluminum beverage
cans.
Comalco, 1992.
The Aluminum Association Inc, 2002.
 
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