How many pop cans/pop bottles are recycled each year?
Last year, the United States recycled over 54 billion pop cans! That's a lot! All the pop cans were aluminum. We (U.S.) buy almost 29.8 billion pop bottles a year! Wow! But only 2 out of 10 pop bottles get recycled each year. 8 out of 10 get thrown into the dump. To stop that, we can recycle the pop bottles instead of throwing them away. Did you know that in Michigan you can return your empty pop cans/bottles to the store, and get 10 cents back? I think that your family should return your empty pop cans/bottles so that you can recycle to help prevent Earth pollution, and so you get 10 cents back!