Cash for Recycling Cans
| Recycling can is not only good for the environment, but it is also good for your wallet. Believe it or not, recycling can is a big business. Canned drinks are undeniable part of our every day lives. Every year billion of soft drinks are sold in the United States each year. |
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Aluminum industry pays over eight hundred million dollars for empty aluminum cans each year. Some of the money go back to organizations that help preserving the environment.
How much money can you earn from can recycling?
The going rate for can recycling also depends on where you live. Typically, recycling aluminum is usually sold at 35 cents per pound. There are twenty four of 12 oz cans in a pound. So if you want to make a thousand dollar, you will need to collect approximately 68,572 cans.
Benefits of Aluminum Can Recycling:
- Aluminum cans can be recycled and back on store shelves in 60 days.
- Fifty four billion cans were recycled in the U.S. in 2003. Save energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil
- Charitable organizations can raise funds to further their local projects. The money that is earned from recycling can improve the quality of lives in the community. “Cans for Habitat” is a perfect example. The program raises money to build affordable house for low-income families through can recycling.
- Recycling aluminum can saves natural resource, energy, time and money.
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