Annoying Waste

Do we know?

* To obtain one ton of pure aluminium, four tons of bauxite (which is refined into alumina and electrochemically reduced into aluminium) the molten aluminium is then either cast into ingots, bars, rolled into sheets... These intermediate shapes are then shipped to processing plants which shape the aluminium into consumer products. All require a great amount of energy and creates a red mud full of contaminants.

* The production of aluminium requires 14 kilowatt hours to obtain 1 kg. or about 2.2 pounds of aluminium. One aluminium can takes the equivalent of nearly one gallon of gas to produce.

* One Kg. of aluminium equals about 50 cans for a beverage container.

* Aluminium cans are easy to recycle and using recyclable material reduces contamination by 95% and needs 90% less energy to make from bauxite. Since the first Earth Day, Americans alone have put some 750 billion aluminium cans in landfills.

* One aluminium can decomposes slowly somewhere between 200 -500 years.

* 106,000 aluminium cans = thirty seconds of can consumption in the world.

*etc. etc. Whenever possible avoid the use of aluminium cans and recycle those you use.