Aluminum can recycling

First place – Twin Lakes High School, Monticello, Indiana. The school partnered with Ball Corporation’s metal beverage packaging facility in Monticello and other businesses in the community to recycle 7,092 pounds of aluminum beverage cans, or 9.8 pounds per student. They raised $3,556, which funded the band’s new uniforms.

•         Second place – Collins Intermediate School, Conroe, Texas. In another partnership with Ball Corporation, this school worked with the Ball’s metal beverage packaging plant in Conroe to recycle 3,845 pounds of aluminum, or 7.44 pounds per student, and raise $2,832 for the school’s Parent Teacher Organization. 

•         Third place – Academy of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, St. Louis, Missouri, teamed with Metal Container Corporation in St. Louis, to recycle 6.7 pounds of used aluminum beverage cans per student.

“In the spirit of Earth Day, we are celebrating the outstanding recycling achievements by these students and the lessons about environmental awareness and action that will last a lifetime,” said Robert Budway, President of the Can Manufacturers Institute. “Almost half of the participating schools have elected to incorporate beverage can recycling as a year-round activity and we encourage others to follow their lead in creating a sustainable future.”

The ACC’s National School Challenge is a friendly, intra-industry contest where beverage can manufacturers Ball Corporation, Metal Container Corporation and Rexam and aluminum suppliers Alcoa Inc., Arco Aluminum and Novelis Inc. partner with schools to see which facility/school team can recycle the most aluminum cans per student.

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SOURCE: The Aluminum Can Council

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