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Trashed Cans: the Global Environmental Impacts of Aluminum Can Wasting in America
This acclaimed 2002 CRI report details the history of aluminum can recycling and wasting in the United States and provides an excellent summary of the environmental damages from making aluminum all over the world.
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The Aluminum Can's Dirty Little Secret
More than half of the 100 billion cans sold in the U.S. in 2005 were landfilled or incinerated. A similar amount wasn’t recycled in other countries, for a global total of about 1.5 million tons of wasted cans.
Learn about the environmental impacts of this wasting on the Aluminum Can's Dirty Little Secret web page.
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2003: The Trillionth Can
From 1972-2003, we threw away over one trillion aluminum cans--enough to reach around the earth 3048 times. Visit CRI's web page with more details on this shocking amount of waste.
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