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Aluminium is the third most abundant element in the earth's crust and is the earth's second most used metal.
The aluminium drink can is the world's most recycled packaging container - worldwide over 50 per cent of aluminium cans are recycled.
Nearly 60 per cent of the aluminium used in the UK has been previously recycled.
Recycling aluminium drink cans saves up to 95 per cent of the energy needed to make aluminium from its raw materials.
Making one aluminium drink can from raw materials uses the same amount of energy that it takes to recycle 20.
Recycling one kg of aluminium saves eight kg of bauxite, four kg of chemical products and fourteen kilowatts of electricity.
The energy saved by recycling one aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours.
The average person uses 1.3kg of aluminium cans a year - that's about 84 cans.
The average household uses 3.2kg of aluminium cans a year - that's about 208 cans.
