REPLANET - Aluminum Recycling

If we recycled the 48 billion aluminum cans that we throw away each year, we could save the equivalent of 24 million barrels of oil.
Recycling aluminum cans saves precious natural resources, energy, time and money - all for a good cause - helping out the earth, as well as the economy and local communities.
Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again.
In 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil (America's entire gas consumption for one day). It takes about 6 weeks total to manufacture, fill, sell, recycle, and then remanufacture a beverage can.
The energy saved from recycling one aluminum drink can will run your TV for 3 hours.
If we recycle the aluminum trash that Americans throw away, we could rebuild the entire US airline fleet every three months.
Recycling one aluminum can saves the amount of energy to light one 100-watt bulb for 20 hours or run a TV for 3 hours.
In America, 1,500 aluminum cans are recycled every second.