Aluminium Recycling

The following aluminium objects can be recycled

Aluminium accounts for 1.3% of waste in the household bin.
Aluminium is made from bauxite ore, a non-renewable resource.
Recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy required to produce aluminium from raw materials.
Over 390 million aluminium beverage cans are sold in Ireland each year, all of which are fully recyclable.
You can differentiate between steel and aluminium cans by using a magnet. Aluminium cans are not magnetic, they will not stick to the magnet. Steel cans will stick to the magnet.
Both aluminium cans and foil containers can be recycled.
Used aluminium cans are recycled and returned to a store shelf as a new can in as little as 60 days. That means a consumer could purchase the same recycled aluminium can every 9 weeks or 6 times a year!
It takes 670 recycled aluminium cans to make one bicycle.
Every minute of everyday, an average of 105,800 aluminium cans are recycled.
Recycling one aluminium can conserves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
Every 3 seconds a baby is born. In that time, 140 cans were born.
Aluminium never wears out, it can be recycled forever.
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