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What are the benefits of recycling Aluminium? There are many advantages of recycling aluminium. Since it takes more energy to dig up and produce aluminium than any other metal, recycling not only avoids resources to be extracted from Earth, it also saves energy - lots of energy!
Half of all aluminium cans are recycled
That's a total of 105 million cans a year. This is enough to build more than 70,000 Boeing 737 airplanes - almost 10 times the total number of 737's ever build!
Saves a lot of energy!
The recycling of cans saves enough energy to power more than 4.4 million European homes for an entire year. If all cans were recycled, this figure could be doubled…
Mining avoided
Recycling of aluminium cans not only saves energy. It also avoids the mining of new Bauxite ore used for aluminium production. Every year, recycling avoids nearly 5 percent of the world's total mining of Bauxite - and that's just from recycling aluminium cans.
It never wears out
Aluminium can be recycled forever - without losing any of its qualities.
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