05 JUNE 2012Guardian.co.uk
Can collection bins placed across UK to encourage recycling
Edited by : AL CIRCLE
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Each year, more than 3bn drink cans are discarded in offices, town centres, at festivals and on beaches.
Yet aluminium is 95% recyclable. Twenty new cans can be made with recycled aluminium on the energy it takes to produce a single can from raw materials.
Every Can Counts (ECC) is a partnership between can-makers, and the packaging and recycling industries to encourage people to recycle cans on the move.
Half the UK's 9.4bn drink cans end up in landfill. But now – 561 organizations are registered with ECC – there are 4,564 collection bins in shops, offices and elsewhere.
In 2011, ECC worked with 10 music festival organizers and 1million cans were recycled. The previous year, 27m cans were collected from workplaces.
Red Bull is encouraging recycling at universities and colleges, enabling students to watch free films by collecting drinks cans.
ECC's first on-street recycling was in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of the White Horse district councils, with bins in seven town centres. In Corby cans are collected by a community organisation, using the revenue to support adults with learning difficulties. A similar scheme operates in Barnstaple, where the group collects cans on beaches.
Every Can Counts (ECC) is a partnership between can-makers, and the packaging and recycling industries to encourage people to recycle cans on the move.
Half the UK's 9.4bn drink cans end up in landfill. But now – 561 organizations are registered with ECC – there are 4,564 collection bins in shops, offices and elsewhere.
In 2011, ECC worked with 10 music festival organizers and 1million cans were recycled. The previous year, 27m cans were collected from workplaces.
Red Bull is encouraging recycling at universities and colleges, enabling students to watch free films by collecting drinks cans.
ECC's first on-street recycling was in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of the White Horse district councils, with bins in seven town centres. In Corby cans are collected by a community organisation, using the revenue to support adults with learning difficulties. A similar scheme operates in Barnstaple, where the group collects cans on beaches.
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