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Interesting Steel Facts
- Steel cans are used to package more than 1500 different kinds of
food - everything from apples to zucchini. They are also used for
paints and aerosol sprays, pet foods, bandages, shoe polish, and hundreds
of other uses.
- Steel cans contain a minimum of 25% recycled content and are completely
recyclable.
- Recycling steel helps save landfill
space while providing a valuable scrap resource to the steel industry.
Using old steel to make new steel also preserves natural
resources and energy.
Steel Recycling Institute, 2002.
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