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DID YOU KNOW?

Monday, July 11, 2016
  • 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