Alcoa Recycling

Alcoa Foundation Finds Super Opportunity to Support Away-from-Home Recycling

As U.S. football fans gear up for a classic February 6 matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers, we’re already looking ahead to next year’s matchup.  On January 20, Alcoa and the Indiana Recycling Coalition joined forces with the 2012 Super Bowl Host committee in Indianapolis to announce an Alcoa Foundation grant to support recycling at the 2012 Super Bowl, which will be held in Indianapolis.

“1st & Green” is the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee's environmental initiative aimed at hosting a carbon-friendly Super Bowl and providing environmental education along the way. Last week, Tony Mason, senior vice president of the Host Committee, joined Alcoa and the Indiana Recycling Coalition’s Carey Hamilton to announce that the IRC received a $124,252 Alcoa Foundation grant to create a competitive, state-wide public space recycling bin grant program and assist with recycling efforts for the 2012 Super Bowl.

Pictured here at the announcement are State Senator Jim Tomes, Super Bowl 2012’s Tony Mason, Beth Schmitt, director of recycling for Alcoa, and Carey Hamilton, executive director of the IRC and volunteer co-chair for the Indianapolis Super Bowl's Environmental Programs Committee.

Did you know:

•    Increasing the U.S. aluminum can recycling rate to 75% would save enough energy to power 300,000 average U.S. homes for more than a year?

•    A recycled aluminum beverage can will end up back on the shelf, as a new can, within 60 days?

•    According to IRC, 30 percent of beverage containers in the U.S. are consumed away from home and currently the majority of these containers are not recycled due in large part to a lack of public space recycling infrastructure?

LET'S TACKLE RECYCLING at the January 15 Steelers playoff game at Heinz Field!

“Let’s Tackle Recycling” in Heinz Field parking lots before the Steelers’ Jan. 15 playoff game!  The Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) and its partners will continue the successful “Let’s Tackle Recycling” campaign to collect materials by distributing blue plastic bags to those entering six designated parking lots and staffing a “drop off” station outside the stadium.  The campaign gathered nearly five tons of recyclables at Steelers games in December.  “Let’s Tackle Recycling” is sponsored by PRC and the Alcoa Foundation in partnership with Alco Parking, City of Pittsburgh Environmental Services, Greenstar, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Sports & Exhibition Authority.  For more information, visit www.prc.org or call 412-488-7490, x 243.

 

Silly Bandz™ Help Spread Importance of Aluminum Can Recycling

Alcoa Recycling created a custom Silly Bandz™ pack of recycling shapes to promote the importance of Aluminum can recycling.  They will be distributed at various community events, recycling initiatives, and to employees to share how important it is to the environment to buy your beverages in cans and then make sure they find their way to a recycle bin.  Each shape represents a different fact about aluminum can recycling that is included on the inserts.  Here are a few:

Aluminum Can: Today’s aluminum can is 35% lighter than the 1970s model, creating less impact on the environment.

Lightbulb: If every American recycled just one more can per week, we could boost recycling rates in the U.S. from 57% to 75%.

Tree: An aluminum can be recycled and back on the store shelf as a new beverage can in less than 60 days!

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