What are the Benefits of Aluminum Recycling?
Because the most popular source of aluminum recycling that we most hear about lets talk about the benefits of recycling aluminum cans. The major benefits of any type of recycling are the fact that we are working to help our environment. Aluminum is not biodegradable. What this means is that for every aluminum can we throw into our wastebasket, instead of recycling it goes to our landfill. While foods and other such items are biodegradable and will eventually disappear into the land, many things such as aluminum will not. In other words, two hundred years from now, when future generations are using our land, these aluminum cans, will still be there taking up much needed space. Our landfills become overcrowded quite often, with the millions of people throwing away recyclables; those future generations will have to find other landfill means if we do not do something about it now. When you recycle your aluminum cans, the manufacturers clean and reuse the aluminum to make new cans. It may a
