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Posts tagged "aluminum"

Recycle Aluminum – How, Where and Why Recycle Aluminum?

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Recycle aluminum cans is one of the best things you can do to help the environment!

Recycle aluminum is an important recycling measure. If you happen to be one of the many Americans who tossed your soda or other beverage cans into a recycling bin last year, give yourself a pat on the back. You have just helped in saving millions of barrels of oil. The U.S. recycling rate for aluminum beverage cans has reached its highest level in more than a decade, with 58.1 percent of all cans recycled in 2010, according to the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.

Americans recycled nearly 56 billion aluminum cans in 2010, and seeing that it takes 95 percent less energy to produce a can from recycled materials than to make one from raw materials, the increase in recycling meant a lot less oil had to be used! The amount of energy saved from aluminum can recycling in 2010 is equal to the energy equivalent of 17 million barrels of crude oil or nearly two days of all U.S. oil imports. Continue Reading Recycle Aluminum – How, Where and Why Recycle Aluminum? Here

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Posted by admin - December 1, 2011 at 9:57 am

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Awning Saves Energy – How Awnings Save Energy

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Awning Saves Energy - How Awnings Save Energy

Awning saves energy – how awnings save energy, and for the record, the awning has been around awhile, and have been enjoying a modest resurgence lately. During a span in the 1930s, when summer temperatures were at record highs across the US, they were a common sight on the fronts of businesses and homes all across the landscape. There is nothing complicated about the awning; the principle of them is really quite simple – anything that is in the shade keeps cooler.

The energy savings from using these are quite significant. Continue Reading Awning Saves Energy – How Awnings Save Energy Here

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Posted by admin - September 8, 2010 at 8:34 am

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