There are so many reasons on why you should recycle cans and bottles. One reason why is becasue you can always trade them in for money. I mean who doesn't need money. While your doing that your saving our world.
The really great news is that aluminum is it's a material that can be recycled over and over again creating new products from the old without degrading it's quality. Saving manufacturers money and in turn, saving you money, AND helping the environment in the process. The aluminium drink can is the world's most recycled container - more than 63% of all cans are recycled worldwide. More than 50% of a new aluminum can is made from recycled aluminum. The 36 billion aluminum cans landfilled last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million. Aluminum beverage cans are getting lighter. Twenty years ago, a pound of aluminum made about twenty cans. Today, the same amount of aluminum makes approximately thirty cans. The thickness of the side of an aluminum can is about the same as that of a human hair. Aluminum can be recycled over and over without breaking down. In theory, we have an inexhaustible supply of it in circulation right now. If we recycled all our aluminum, we�d never have to make more. The average American discarded fourteen and a half pounds of aluminum just from packaging last year�and almost three pounds of aluminum foil. That�s not even counting aluminum cans.
Most people don�t realize how strong a metal aluminum is. Four six packs can support the weight of a 4,000-lb. aluminum car. In 1996, aluminum manufacturers saved enough energy by recycling aluminum instead of creating it from bauxite ore to power a city the size of Pittsburg for six years or so.
Aluminum recycles in no time at all. When you send a can to a recycling depot, it�s processed, recycled, and back on the shelf again in about a month.