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Environmental Benefits

There are significant environmental benefits to recycling aluminium

• Recycling aluminium uses 95% less energy than producing aluminium from raw materials.
• It also saves 97% of green house gas emissions produced in the primary production process.
• Recycling 1 tonne of aluminium saves 9 tonnes of CO2 emissions and 4 tonnes of bauxite – the raw material from which aluminium is made. 1 tonne of CO2 is equivalent to driving over 3,000 miles.
• The metal is a permanently available resource. It is 100 per cent recyclable, for ever, so carbon savings increase every time it passes through the recycling loop.
• Making aluminium cans from recycled metal is 20 times more energy efficient than using primary material (i.e made from raw materials)
• The empty drink can you recycle could pass through the recycling process and be back on sale as a brand new can in just 60 days