In America, 1,500 aluminum cans are recycled every second.

In 1989, Americans used 80 billion aluminum cans.

We recycled 60% of aluminum cans in 1989.

Making cans from recycled aluminum cuts related air pollution (for example, sulfur dioxides, which create acid rain) by 95%.

Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

A quarter of all aluminum goes into packaging.

The all-aluminum can was introduced in 1964.

A paper grocery sack holds about 1.5 pounds of empty aluminum cans.