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If you happen to use aluminum foil in your kitchen, consider giving those shiny crinkles a good scrub with some soap and water, so you can draw out a second use out of them. Or recycle them with your soda cans after you've rinsed out the baked-on nosh.
Not only is producing virgin aluminum highly resource intensive, but mining bauxite to create aluminum is also extremely grueling on the environment. One upside: Aluminum is 100 percent recyclable and can be reworked indefinitely, without degrading its quality. (Plastic, on the other hand, diminishes in quality each time it's recycled.) Plus, recycling aluminum takes as little as 5 percent of the energy you'd need to manufacture virgin aluminum, says the U.S. Department of State's Aluminum Task Force.If your municipal recycling eschews foil, and entering your zip code at Earth911.org doesn't turn up a suitable recycler in your area, you can still make amends by purchasing recycled aluminum foil, many brands of which are becoming increasingly visible in stores.
Fun fact: Americans toss out enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet, according to the Aluminum Association.
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