2016Yearbook_Flipbook

2016

THE I SR I SCRAP YEARBOOK

START Emptycans arecollected and sold toa recycler.

Your favorite beveragearrives inanewcan made from this process.

From One Can to Another In this process, empty soda pop cans are recycled to make new cans. Did you know:

The recycler presseshundreds ofcans together tomakebales, weighingabout 1000pounds.

• A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf in as little as 60 days. • If all aluminum scrap processed in the United States were used solely to produce soda cans, the lined-up cans would stretch 25 million miles – the distance from Earth to Venus. • Each year, United States domestically-recycled aluminum cans save the energy equivalent of 26 million barrels of gasoline – America’s entire gas supply for three days. • Of an estimated total 700 million tons of aluminum produced in the world since commercial manufacturing began in the 1880s, about 75% is still in productive use as secondary rawmaterial.

Yournew cancompletes the recycling journey.

Aluminum

Thebalesare melted to make large sheetsof at aluminum.

Thecan factory makesnew cans from the recycled aluminum.

The at sheetsof aluminum are sent toa can factory.

Source: JASON Learning/ISRI

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