Keep Evansville Beautiful & Alcoa Warrick Operations Sponsor “Cans for Cash Challengeâ€
Keep Evansville Beautiful and Alcoa Warrick Operations are currently working together on a
six-week Cans for Cash Challenge, which aims to encourage more people to recycle their aluminum
beverage cans.
The challenge, which runs now until November 12, will award cash prizes to charitable
organizations that have aluminum cans recycled in their name. For every five pounds collected,
recyclers will earn a chance for a drawing that will benefit a charity of their choice. The winners will be
announced on America Recycles Day, which is November 15.
The recycler can keep the money they get from recycling the cans or donate the money later to a
charity. Regardless, every recycler who recycles at least five pounds will be able to enter a charity into
the drawing for cash prizes, provided by Alcoa Warrick Operations.
Entry forms for the Cans for Cash Challenge can be obtained from the two participating
recyclers: Material Recycling Inc. 2340 North Burkhardt Road or Tri-State Resource Recovery, 1500
Read Street.
Alcoa, which sponsors this local program with Keep Evansville Beautiful, has set a strategic goal
to increase the U.S. recycling rates of used beverage cans to 75 percent by 2015. Although aluminum is
the most recycled consumer packaging material on Earth, the United States lags behind many other
nations in recycling aluminum. This metal, unlike other packaging materials, is infinitely recyclable, and
a beverage can that is recycled today can be back on the shelf as a new can within 60 days.
“Empty aluminum cans equal money in your pocket,†said President Cheryl Musgrave. “But it’s
more than just a dollars and cents issue, it’s an important environmental issue. Recycling aluminum
saves significant amounts of energy.â€
For more information, call Keep Evansville Beautiful at 812 425-4461 or visit them on the web
or Facebook.
