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Each year, North America recycles more steel than aluminum, glass, paper and plastic combined.
Americans use 100 million steel cans every day.
The steel industry has been recycling for over 150 years.
The steel industry’s largest source of raw material is scrap metal, which is commonly collected by recycling steel.
Recycling steel saves 75 percent of the energy that would be used to create steel from raw materials, enough to power 18 million homes.
Over 65 percent of the steel produced in the U.S. is recycled into new steel every year.
A ton of recycled steel saves 2500 pounds of iron ore, 1400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone, since they are the raw materials for making new steel.
A steel frame for a 2,000 square-foot two-story house is equivalent to the material of about six recycled cars; a comparable wooden frame would take over 40 trees to produce.
A typical household appliance (also known as a “white good”) is produced using approximately 65 percent steel
Steel cans contain at least 25 percent recycled steel, with many nearly 100 percent recycled content.
Every day, Americans use enough steel and tin cans to make a steel pipe running from Los Angeles to New York and back.
37 billion steel cans weighing 2,654,892 tons were used in the U.S. in 1991.
97% of all steel cans are used for food.
The average American uses 142 steel cans per year.
About 11.5 million tons of ferrous (e.g., steel and iron) waste was generated in the U.S. in 1994.
Americans throw away enough iron and steel to continuously supply the nation's automakers.
Ferrous metals constituted 5.5% of the 1994 U.S. municipal solid waste stream by weight.
In 1994, approximately 53.1% of all steel cans and 27.8% of steel packaging materials, such as strapping, were recycled. The overall rate of ferrous metal recovery was about 25.2%.
Steel food and beverage cans are recycled into a variety of products including new cans, bicycle frames, and even new cars.

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