Project Green Factoids Interesting facts about recycling Tools Email this article Print this article YouNews™ Digg this! Save to Delicious Post to Facebook Share on Twitter Close Story Created: Jul 26, 2007 at 3:33 PM MDT Story Updated: Apr 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM MDT By Tara Mussulman 1. Recycling 1 aluminum can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours—or the equivalent of a half gallon of gas. 2. During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-once aluminum cans are made. 3. An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! 4. We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year. 5. At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!

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