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  • In the UK we use 13 billion steel cans each year.  If we stacked them on top of each other, they would reach the moon – three times!
     
  • 3 out of 4 of the cans in your supermarket are made of steel.
     
  • Steel cans are also called 'tins' because they are coated with a very fine layer of tin – another metal.
     
  • When steel is made, the process doesn't take much energy.  If all the drinks cans in the UK were made of steel, the energy saved would be enough to light up every home in Britain for 4 weeks!

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