A Word About Recycling with Ollie Maier

In our home, we recycle all our aluminum used beverage cans (UBC), just as most of you probably also do. (And getting a little change for them is a nice benefit in some places.) However, it surprised us how many cans are not recycled.

From a Resource Recycling newsletter, we find every year, Americans throw away around 45 billion aluminum cans. “That’s the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the U.S. annually sending nearly a dozen 12-packs to a landfill rather than a recycling center.”

These cans, ending up in the landfill, represent an $800 million economic loss each year. This loss is even greater when you consider aluminum cans are capable of being recycled many times over or infinitely – easily and economically.