By bringing in world-class manufacturing concepts and challenging existing quality standards, Alcoa's Tennessee Operations is making a long-term commitment to its customers -- the aluminum can makers of the world.
That same commitment applies to Tennessee Operations employees and the community in which we operate. Tennessee is committed to the environment and the practice of reducing, reusing and recycling. The plant has been recognized both within the company and by the state of Tennessee for its innovative approach to environmental management. Alcoa's promise to protect the environment is made clear through its corporate policy and day-to-day action. |
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Community Report
Read the 2007 Tennessee Operations Report to the Community.
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Great Smoky Mountains: Hands-on Biology Lesson
Student Cody West shows Alcoan Dale Huddleston the role the lowly salamander plays in the Appalachian ecosystem in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Residential environmental programs at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont, in Blount County, Tennessee, have been strengthened by a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation. The money will help provide capital improvements, scholarships for low-income students, and science programs in a community where Alcoa has operated for 90 years.
Alcoa Wetlands Serve as Natural Remediation Systems
Alcoa's Tennessee Operations is using an innovative wetlands technique to let nature clean up complex cyanide and diesel fuel.
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Facts About Recycling
Recycling aluminum requires 95% less energy than producing aluminum from bauxite
It takes 10,200 megawatts of power to run a smelter for one day. That is the same amount that it would take to power an average of 425,000 houses
Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours
Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet
Recycling one ton of aluminum saves the equivalent in energy of 2,350 gallons of gasoline
Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can's volume of gasoline
More than one million tons of aluminum containers and packaging are thrown away each year
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