Why is aluminum can recycling important?

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Why is aluminum can recycling important?
Two-thirds of the world’s aluminum is in use today.
Making new aluminum cans from used ones takes 95 percent less energy. Twenty recycled cans can be made with the energy it takes to make a brand new one.
Last year, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil. That’s America’s entire gas consumption in one day.
Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring one half of that can’s volume in gasoline.
The average employee consumes 2.5 canned beverages a day while at work.
The empty aluminum can is worth about one cent.
Source: The Aluminum Association