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Aluminum Recycling Helps the Environment and Your Bank Account
Aluminum Recycling Helps the Environment and Your Bank Account
Aluminum recycling is a very important part of any family and
community recycling program. Aluminum recycling is one of the
easiest things you can do to help the environment. Recycling of
aluminum began long ago and started to become commonplace back
in the early 1970s. As an added bonus recycling centers will pay
you for your aluminum cans and scrap aluminum.
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Aluminum is 100% renewable. This means that the can you take
to your local recycling center today becomes a new aluminum can.
There are no waste products in the process making aluminum a 100%
renewable resource and one of the best things you can recycle.
You might be surprised to know that within 60 days an aluminum
can is able to go from your recycling center and become a brand
new can to be used by consumers.
There are many options open to you for your aluminum recycling
needs. In most areas you can take your aluminum recycling items
to your local recycling center, a community drop-off recycling
center, a reverse vending machine, curbside collection or charity
collection sites.
Your local recycling center, or community drop-off recycling
center, will take all of your cans and scrap aluminum products
and pay you for them by the pound. Right now the price of aluminum
is about $1.30 a pound, but varies by area and date. For reference
a large kitchen trash bag of cans, not compacted, will pay about
$3.50 at the $1.30 per pound price.
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Many areas have now installed reverse vending machines. To use
one you insert your cans into it and in return the machine pays
you for them. Locally our machines require your cans to be in
their original shape, not compacted down, and you can feed them
in one after another. Once you have fed in all of your cans you
push a button and get a credit receipt which can be cashed in
or used at the local grocery stores where they are located. The
great thing about the reverse vending machines is that you can
use them at any time of day or night. They are very convenient
and easy to use.
Here in the United States many places now offer curbside recycling.
The local waste management company, which picks up your regular
garbage, will give you special recycling containers to put your
aluminum recycling, paper recycling and plastic recycling items
into.
 On an agreed upon day of the week the local waste management
company will come by and pick up all of your recycling items.
While they will not pay you for them, they do sell the materials
and you see the result as a lower trash removal bill.
Community charity organizations sometimes place aluminum recycling
containers out for you to put your extra aluminum cans in. They
then take the cans to your local recycling center and use the
money for their charity.
No matter which option you choose, recycling is very important
to both your family and your community. Aluminum cans are one
of the best items you can recycle because they are 100% renewable.
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