Steel/Tin Cans

Where Does It Go?

International Paper (Salt Lake City, UT): The steel (tin) is sold locally and recycled into new cans.
Sutta (Wilmington, CA): The steel (tin) often goes to Northern Utah where Western Metal has a factory and can melt it and use it to make other products.

The steel industry's annual recycling saves the equivalent energy to electrically power about 18 million households for a year. Every time a ton of steel is recycled, 2500 pounds of iron ore, 1000 pounds of coal and 40 pounds of limestone is preserved.
Every day Americans use enough steel and tin cans to make a steel pipe running from Los Angeles to New York... and back. If we only recycle one-tenth of the cans we now throw away, we'd save about 3.2 billion of them every year.
The average American throws out about 61 lbs. of tin cans every month.
About 70% of all metal is used just once and then discarded. The remaining 30% is recycled. After 5 cycles, one-fourth of 1% of the metal remains in circulation.
Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them.
Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans every day.
Americans throw out enough iron and steel to supply all the nation's automakers on a continuous basis.
A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces related water pollution, air pollution and mining wastes by about 70%.