date:Aug 30, 2012
significant energy, emissions and resource savings.
The amount of energy saved just from recycling cans in 2011 is equal to the energy equivalent of over 17 million barrels of crude oil.
Buchanan added that same amount of energy that recycling cans saved is also what it takes to produce the 29 billion plastic water bottles Americans consume each year.
Out of landfill
Robert Budway, president of the Can Manufacturers Institute, said:Metal can be used forever if we keep it out of landfills, an