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Recycling
saves energy and conserves
the environment.
Cans and glass are 100% recyclable
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.
Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 % of the energy used to make them.
Metal is separated into 2 groups:
ALUMINIUMSTEEL / TIN Use a magnet to test which metal your waste is
Sticks Does not stick
The filled tins are then taken to shops and stacked on the
shelves People choose and buy the
product they wish to use
The empty cans are collected for
recycling
Cans are collected in lorries and dumped in huge heaps at the
recycling factory
Magnets separate steel cans from aluminium
cans. They are compacted and taken to
a steel factory
The cans are melted in a furnace and made into new cans
Tins & Cans are transported to food factories to be filled with food or drinkCA
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A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces water pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by about 70 percent.
Americans use
100Americans throw away enough
aluminium every month to rebuild
their entire commercial air fleet.
Americans throw out enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the car manufacturers in the entire nation.
Do you know?
South Africans and Recycling
Did you know?An aluminium can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years
from now
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 sitesOn average, 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ultimately ends up as rubbish.
The unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours.
SO….RECYCL
E!
On 21st June there is another collection.
Can we beat our record of 14 000 cans?
Collect cans now!
Bring your cans on 21
June.
40 cans each = 14 400
