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Showing posts with label aluminum recycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aluminum recycling. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2009

Green Practices at Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch has several environmentally friendly practices that they follow ... including recycling more aluminum cans than they use, recycling grain for animal feed and creating methane gas ... check out the neat videos about A-Bs Green efforts.

" ... our tradition of environmental stewardship dates back to ... the late 1800s, ... recycling leftover grain from the brewing process, using it for cattle feed, a practice that continues today."

" ... recycle more than 99 percent of the solid waste we create. ... recycling more than 27 billion cans annually. ... Bio-Energy Recovery System (BERS), ... provides up to 15 percent of the fuel for nine of our U.S. breweries, ..."


Via:
Anheuser-Busch LINK



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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Reynolds 100% Recycled Aluminum


Most everyone should know that aluminum is 100% recyclable. Producing "new" aluminum from old aluminum uses significantly less energy, 80% less. Reynolds has aluminum foil from 100% recycled aluminum ... in a totally recyclable package.

" ... Reynolds Wrap® Foil from 100% Recycled Aluminum ... made from a mix of pre and post consumer aluminum ... packaging and core are made from 100% recovered paper and the inks used on the product packaging are water-based."

"... as clean and safe to use with food as ... virgin, aluminum. ... requires heating the metal to more than 1200°F, which burns off any debris in the metal. ...sent through a filtration process, poured and rolled into thin sheets ..."

Used aluminum foil is not as easy to recycle as aluminum cans ... to find a recycling location near you check www.earth911.org >>> LINK

Via: ReynoldsRecycled.com LINK