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Why Recycle?—The smart choice
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As a consumer, you make choices every day that can help reduce global warming. Choosing products with higher aluminum content is one of these decisions. Strong, light aluminum that replaces heavier materials like steel in automobiles helps reduce fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions, as everyone knows. And even in products that don't consume fuel directly, like food and beverage containers, appliances, furniture and building materials, aluminum makes a difference. By reducing weight, aluminum reduces the amount of fuel — and greenhouse gas emissions — needed to transport these products from the factory to your home.
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These benfits are compounded when you choose to recycle aluminum in the products you buy. Recycled aluminum is identical to smelted aluminum, except for one thing: it takes only 1/20 of the energy to make it. Less energy means reduced greenhouse emissions. And like few other materials in the recycling chain, aluminum recycles over and over again.
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