Recycle

Top 10 Reasons

Many of you may ask yourselves, why should I recycle aluminum? The answer is quite simple. Recycling saves energy, creates income, and helps our economy..

Saving Energy: For each pound of metal recycled, the aluminum industry saves the energy resources needed to generate about 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's enough energy to meet the electric needs of a city like Pittsburgh, PA, for six years!

Creating Income: A used aluminum can returned to a recycling center is worth over a penny to a consumer. Sure, a penny may not seem like a lot, but when you take into consideration the amount of canned drinks Americans consume each day, the totals really add up!

Helping the Economy: Can recycling has created about 30,000 new jobs at recycling centers, aluminum companies, and in the transportation support industries.

As you can see, the reasons to recycle aluminum are endless, but here are the Top 10 Reasons to Recycle Aluminum Cans:

  • The recycling industry employs tens of thousands of people.
  • We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year. To build a $50,000 Habitat for Humanity Home, we would need approximately 4,250,000 cans or 125,000 pounds of aluminum cans @ .40 a pound (the current going rate).
  • There is no limit to the amount of time aluminum can be recycled.
  • Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within 60 days.
  • Aluminum is the most recycled beverage container.
  • You can help the environment one can at a time.
  • Recycling aluminum uses 95 percent less energy than making new aluminum. The energy saved can power a TV for three hours!
  • You can earn cash for cans.
  • Because you "can."
  • Money from aluminum can recycling goes toward building more Habitat for Humanity homes! (With possible matching funds from various sources)

R.A.C.E. T.E.A.M.

Will you Join the R.A.C.E. T.E.A.M. 2007?

Recycle Aluminum Cans Everyday
Recycle All Cellhpones Everyday
Recycle All Cartridges Everyday
Together Everyone Achieves More.

Our community wins! The environment wins! East Pasco families in need of simple, decent homes win! You win as a Recycling Volunteer. What commitment are you willing to make to build a Habitat home with aluminum cans and laser/jet ink cartridges? One hundred pounds? Two hundred pounds? Five hundred pounds per month?

Goal: 10,000 pounds of aluminum cans in 2007 to fund the cost of Habitat House #50's framing package

Locations: 13 locations, with the newest at our ReStore located at 14940 Citrus Country Drive Dade City, FL 33525. Download the Recycling Program & R.A.C.E T.E.A.M. Pickup Schedule (PDF) for a complete listing.

For more information, please call East Pasco Habitat for Humanity at 352-567-1444 or email us at info@ephabitat.org. Join the R.A.C.E. T.E.A.M. Today!