Recycling Aluminum is one of Morris Tick Company’s primary activities. In the Central Illinois area Holy Trinity, St. Lukes, Knights of Columbus, the VFW and others have can drives to raise funds for their organizations going year round. The average family brings in cans, old gas grills, aluminum lawn chairs, storm windows, small appliances and pots and pans. These are all welcomed items at the Morris Tick Company, Inc. 

Fun Facts about Recycling Aluminum Cans

You can earn money.

Recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than making new aluminum. 
The energy saved can power a TV for 3 hours.

  Once an aluminum can is recycled,
it can be part of a new can within 60 days.

There is no limit to the amount of times
an aluminum container can be recycled.

We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.

The recycling industry employs tens of thousands of people.

The 62.6billion cans recycled last year alone would
make 171 circles around the earth at the equator.

Some 199,482 cans are recycled every minute nationwide.

Over the past 10 years, the number of
aluminum cans recycled has doubled.

More than one million tons of aluminum containers and packaging
manufactures save enough energy needed to supply electricity to a
city the size of Pittsburgh for about 6 years.

If 2,750 households in your community recycle four
aluminum cans a day, they can build a Habitat home for
a family in need in just one year. That is equivalent to
each person in a family of four recycling one can a day.

Aluminum is the most recycled beverage container.

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