Recycling increases energy savings

I doubt most people realize how much energy is required to create new aluminum beverage cans compared to recycled cans. According to Can Manufacturers Institute (www.cancentral.com/funfacts.cfm):

l Recycling aluminum creates 97 percent less water pollution than producing new metal from ore.

l Recycling 20 aluminum pop or beer cans saves the equivalent energy of a gallon of gasoline.

l Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy used to make aluminum cans from ore.

l If all 100 billion cans produced annually in the USA were recycled (only about half are), it would save the energy equivalent of 5 billion gallons of gasoline each year.

Therefore it is both patriotic and good for the future of our children, grandchildren and the planet to recycle those cans. Do what you “can.”

Here is a website that deals with updating the Iowa “Bottle Law”: www.iowapolicyproject.org/2005docs/050418-BottleFacts3.pdf.

LeRoy Barnhart

Edgewood