- Recycling one aluminum beverage can saves enough energy to run a 14 watt CFL bulb (60 watt incandescent equivalent) for 20 hours, or a computer for 3 hours. (EPA)
- Recycle this can and save enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. (Pepsi)
- Recycling aluminum cans in the United States in 1996 saved enough energy to power a city the size of Philadelphia for one year. From World Watch Institute, December 1998
- If you recycled all the aluminum cans the average person consumed in their lifetime it could power a TV for 130,000 hours or in other words 14 years. (Unknown)
LET’S RECYCLE TO SAVE TONS OF ENERGY!
Source: http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2714&q=440320