- About 630 steel cans are recycled every second!
- Steel cans can be recycled in more than 20,000
locations across the country.
- Steel cans are used to package more than 1500
different kinds of food - everything from apples to zucchini.
- Steel cans are also used for paints and aerosol
sprays, bandages, and shoe polish.
- Even oil filters are a form of a steel can.
More than 46 million appliances - including old stoves, refrigerators,
washers and dryers - were recycled in 1997.
- The amount of steel recycled from appliances in
1997 would equal the amount needed to build 88 new baseball stadiums the
size of the new BancOne Field in Phoenix, AZ.
- Because of steel, you can display your latest
artwork on the door of the refrigerator.
- Steel's magnetic attraction also makes it one
of the easiest materials to recycle.
- The number of cars recycled in 1997 alone -
nearly 13 million - would cause a traffic jam circling the Earth more
than one and three quarter times.
- It takes about 45 seconds to shred the average
automobile into fist-sized pieces of steel for recycling.
- The automobile is the most recycled consumer
product in the world today.
- The steel found in just six cars, when
recycled, is enough to build a brand new house, using steel framing of
course!
- What's at the heart of today's biggest
skyscrapers? Steel, of course. For example, the Sears Tower in Chicago,
North America's tallest building, was built with 74,000 tons of steel!
- Using recycled steel to make new steel saves
energy. In fact, the steel industry saves enough energy in one year to
electrically power 18 million homes for one year.
- The recycling process isn't finished until you
buy new products made from recycled content.
- With steel, you are guaranteed that all
new products contain recycled steel - everything from the can of
Spaghetti-O'sŪ you had for lunch to the new addition on your house to
your new bike.
- The Steel Recycling Institute is a not-for-profit trade association
dedicated to promoting and sustaining steel as North America's #1
Recycled Material. Our newly revamped web site (www.recycle-steel.org)
features information on the recycling of steel cans, cars, appliances
and C & D material, as well as the environmental benefits of steel
as a sustainable construction material.
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