Why should you recycle?
Make Every Can Count... and help save the environment at work, Uni or when you're out and about!
Trust us - every can does count!
You might not think that recycling that can of drink you just had at break or lunch will have much of an effect. Believe us it can (sorry about the pun). Just by recycling whenever and wherever you can really does help ‘close the loop' and make a difference.
From old cans to new in just six weeks!
Every can that's put into an Every Can Counts collection box could be recycled into a new one! In fact, it could be back on the shelves or in a vending machine in just six weeks.
Plus every single part of every can collected can be recycled, which means there's absolutely no waste. Clever or what?
Make Every Can Count... and save energy
Recycling drinks cans saves up to 95% of the energy it takes to make both aluminium and steel from raw materials. So as an example: making aluminium cans from recycled metal is 20 times more energy efficient than using 'primary' metal.
Make Every Can Count... towards lowering CO2
Recycling every can reduces CO2 emissions by up to 80%. That's a saving of 9 tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of alumimium recycled. And because the metal can be endlessly recycled the savings stack up - every can recycled cuts the carbon footprint of the next can made.
Make Every Can Count... to help reduce landfill
Saving your drinks cans for recycling means they are not ending up buried in a landfill site. But now you know about the environmental benefits of recycling why would you want that to happen?
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