Last June, the aluminum industry reported that the 2006 recycling rate for aluminum beverage cans (known as ABCs) was 51.6 percent. Slightly better than half of ABC cans are recycled today, but it s a figure hardly worth boasting about. In the 1990s more than 60 percent of them were recycled, and the aluminum industry is now moving further away from its recycling goal of 75 percent, set a decade ago.

In 2006, U.S. manufacturers sold 100.6 billion ABCs, but recycled an estimated 51.9 billion. The remaining 48 billion cans were landfilled, littered or burned in garbage incinerators. To comprehend such large numbers, consider this: dividing those 48 billion wasted cans by the ...

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