Metals STEEL

• Annually, enough energy is saved by recycling steel to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years.
• A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces related water pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by 70%.

COPPER

• Manufacturing copper using copper scraps saves an estimated 85% in energy costs.

ALUMINUM

• Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to light one 100-watt bulb for 20 hours.
• Trashing 1 aluminum can is equal to the waste of pouring out half the cans volume of gasoline.
• Energy savings from aluminum can recycling in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for 6 years.
• Every 3 months, Americans alone throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
• You can make 20 cans from recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make 1 new can.
• If the average aluminum which contains 50% post consumer recycled aluminum were recycled today, it would be back on the grocer's shelf in about 90 days.