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	If we recycle the aluminum trash that Americans throw away we could rebuild the entire U.S. airline fleet EVERY three months!
	Tin takes 100 years to break down. Aluminum takes 500 years!
	Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline!
	350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
	More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product!
	Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks!
	Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates!
	During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made!
	Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans!
	We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year!
	At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
	It is estimated that since 1972 some 16 million tons of aluminum cans have been recycled. These 785.6 billion aluminum cans placed end-to-end could stretch to the moon more than 249 times!
	In 1996, Americans recycled 62.8 billion beverage cans. The package reached a 63.5 percent recycling rate, a national recycling rate of two out of three cans!
	In 1972, 53 million pounds of aluminum cans were recycled. Today, we exceed that amount weekly. Some 119,482 cans are recycled every minute nationwide!
	Aluminum cans have tremendous value. In 1996, Americans earned $1.08 billion by recycling aluminum cans. Since 1972, Americans have earned almost $8.9 billion by recycling aluminum cans!
	The weight of aluminum cans recycled in 1996 was equal to the weight of 14 aircraft carriers -- 983,709 tons!

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