Can recycling, Adelaide Hills recycling depots; such as ‘Adelaide Hills Recycling Centre’, pay 10 cents on all aluminium cans that are eligible under the South Australian governments container deposit refund scheme.

Why Recycle Aluminium Cans?

Keeping aluminium cans that qualify for a 10 cent refund, after you and your family have drunk the contents is an easy way to make money. Collect cans by placing them in a container or bin ready to take to Adelaide Hills Recycling Centre for payment. You can contribute to a cleaner Adelaide Hills by reducing litter in parks and streams and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions created when making cans from non recycled aluminium. By having more recycled aluminium around to use means less mining is required, leaving more for future generations.

Did You Know – Aluminium Can Recycling Facts

Here is a list of interesting aluminium can facts and figures.

• Cans made from recycled aluminium uses 95% less energy than making them from scratch; a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Just one aluminium can recycled saves enough energy to power a television for 3 hours.
• With advances in manufacturing processes, making aluminium cans requires less raw material than it used to 30 years ago. Each can is now lighter and thinner, but as strong.
• When discovered by Sir Humphry Davy, back in 1807, he named the element ‘aluminum’. This spelling is used in America, but Australian’s have changed it to ‘aluminium’.
• Aluminium is the most common metal found in the Earth’s crust, in fact the third most common element after oxygen and silicon.
• About 50% of aluminium cans bought from shops each year in Australia contain soft drink and about 30% contain beer.