Recycling Facts

• The United States annually recycles enough copper to provide the copper content for 30,645 Statues of Liberty.
• If all aluminum scrap processed in the United States were used solely to produce standard soda cans, the lined up cans would stretch 29,847,965 miles, more than three-fourths of the way to mars.
• Energy saved using aluminum scrap versus virgin aluminum ore is 95%.
• Recycling 10 pounds of aluminum cans reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 16 pounds.
• Recycling 1 car saves the energy equivalent of 502 gallons of gasoline and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 8,811 pounds.
• Recycling 1 ton of steel conserves 1,400 pounds of coal, and 120 pounds of limestone.
• An estimated 85% to 90% of all automotive aluminum is recovered and recycled.
• Approximately 60% of the aluminum in North American cars is recycled content.
• Of an estimated total 700 million tons of aluminum produced in the world since commercial manufacturing began, about three-fourths is still in productive use.
• Lead-acid batteries, a primary use for lead, have a 97% recycling rate.
• Scrap accounts for 40% of the world’s raw material needs.
• 2 out of 3 pounds of steel made in the United States is manufactured using scrap.
• 60% of the metals and alloys produced in the United States are made from non-ferrous scrap.

Source: Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.:  You can learn more at www.isri.org!