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Cans and glass are 100% recyclable
Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 %
of the
used to make them.
1 recycled tin can would save
enough energy to power a
television for 3 hours
1 recycled aluminum can (like Red
Bull) would save enough energy to
run a 100 watt light bulb for 20
hours, a computer for 3 hours, and
a TV for 2 hours.
Metal is separated
into 2 groups:
STEEL / TIN
Sticks
Use a magnet to test which
metal your waste is
ALUMINIUM
Does
not stick
Tins & Cans are
transported to food
factories to be filled
with food or drink
People choose
and buy the
product they wish
to use
The cans are
melted in a furnace
and made into new
cans
Magnets separate steel
cans from aluminium
cans. They are
compacted and taken to
a steel factory
The empty cans
are collected for
recycling
Cans are collected
in lorries and
dumped in huge
heaps at the
recycling factory
RECYCLING
CAN
The filled tins are
then taken to shops
and stacked on the
shelves
A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces
water pollution, air pollution, and mining
waste by about 70 percent.
Do you know?
Americans use
100Americans throw
away enough
every
month to rebuild
their entire
commercial air fleet.
Americans throw
out enough
to
continuously supply
all the car
manufacturers in
the entire nation.
South Africans and Recycling
The people of South Africa produce 540 million
tons of waste a year
About 95% of all South Africa’s
waste is disposed of in
landfill sites
On average, 16%
of the money
you spend on a
product pays for
the packaging,
which ultimately
ends up as
rubbish.
Did you know?
An aluminium can that is thrown
away will still be a can 500 years
from now
The unreleased energy contained in
the average dustbin each year could
power a television for 5,000 hours.
SO….
RECYCLE!
Collect
cans now!
On 21st June there is another collection.
Can we beat our record of
cans?
40 cans each = 14 400