1. We are sponsors of Knoxville's Earth Day festival called EarthFest-- this year's event will be held on April 18!
2. We're involved with a regional recycling organization called SERDC- the Southeast Recycling Development Council.
3. We are members of the Tennessee Recycling Coalition.
4. It only takes about 60 days for an aluminum can to be recycled, processed, and put back on the shelf!
5. Alcoa Recycling gave 3 recycling presentations to Bearden High School in Knoxville, TN last Friday-- we even played recycling bingo! Thanks so much Bearden Bulldogs!
6. We enjoy seeing our Alcoa recycling bins used around the community!
7. In January, we donated about 1,000 of our Alcoa recycling bins to the University of Tennessee's Facility Services Department for students to use within some campus student apartments.
8. We are members of the National Recycling Coalition (NRC). We plan to attend NRC's annual conference to be held in Portland, Oregon in October '09. Watch out west coast!
9. Partnering with NRC on a bin program, we are giving away about 25,000 recycling bins to about 20 different states!
10. We recycle about 17 billion cans per year at our plant in east Tennessee!
11. Aluminum cans are infinitely recyclable-- that means you can recycle the aluminum from the can over and over and over again!
12. Alcoa is an acronym that stands for Aluminum Company of America-- did you know that?
13. We are committed to increasing the aluminum can recycling rates in the U.S. from 54% to 75% by 2015. Think you could help us out?
14. It's our continual mission to encourage people to begin recycling in their daily lives and help them discover nearby recycling opportunities.
15. We think Curbside Value Partnership is a great resource for communities to increase their curbside recycling efforts. Check out their website!
16. Alcoa founder Charles Martin Hall figured out the method for creating aluminum at the age of 22! What were you doing at 22?
17. Our aluminum reclamation plant in Tennessee uses over 500,000 million pounds per year of recycled aluminum beverage cans and other scrap.
18. UBC is an industry acronym that stands for used beverage cans. Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
19. Alcoa Recycling has been around since 1978. We are vintage!
20. Recycling aluminum cans saves about 95% of the energy used to make aluminum from virgin materials.
21. Our tag line is-- Recycling: Make It Second Nature.
22. We are producing a recycling story from Monday through Friday right here on blog central. Send us your ideas or stories about recycling and maybe we'll make you famous! Just go to 'Contact Us' on the left hand side of the screen and submit your ideas!
23. We helped to fund the Knoxville Recycling Coalition's 2009 Recycling Guide. It contains lots of great recycling information for Knoxville, TN and the surrounding area!
24. Alcoa was recently mentioned in on an episode of the Discovery Channel's 'How Stuff Works' show. They show a short video on recycling aluminum. Go to their website and look for the video- Episode 6, Recycling Aluminum. It's so cool!
25. We are involved with the Can Manufacturer's Institute. Check out the section on their website about recycling.
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