Fun Facts

Half of all polyester carpet manufactured in the US is made from recycled soda bottles

Aluminum cans made their first appearance in America in 1953

We use about 392 cans per person per year

Aluminum cans typically have a recycled aluminum content of about 55%

Recycling aluminum saves about 95% of the energy it would take to produce aluminum from its original source, bauxite

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a TV for three hours

Aluminum recycling is so efficient that it can take as few as 60 days for a can to be collected, melted down and made into a new can sitting on a grocery store shelf.

PET bottles can be made into fleece jackets or carpet

The average return rate where there is a deposit is more than 70%, where there is not a deposit it is below 30%

Layed end to end, the containers recycled in Alberta last year would circle the earth... 8 times!