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Article: Recycling rate drops for aluminum cans
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- BioCycle
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright J.G. Press Inc. Aug 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Since the first Earth Day, Americans have landfilled more than 750 billion aluminum beverage cans, states the Container Recycling Institute (CRI). "Despite the high value of aluminum can scrap," said Pat Franklin, executive director of CRI, "the recycling rate for aluminum cans dropped to 55 percent in 1998, its lowest point in ten years." Of the 102 billion aluminum cans sold in the U.S. last year, an estimated 56 billion were recycled and a record number - 46 billion -- ended up in landfills. It takes the same amount of energy to make one new aluminum can from raw materials as it does to make four new cans ...