Environmentally Sound
CASH’S goes to great lengths to make sure that everything we do is with the environment in mind. From our managers to our drivers we’re committed to exceeding environmental regulations and standards. Our customers never have to worry about how their scrap is being handled and processed.
Going Green
It takes more than being a non-ferrous and ferrous metal recycling company to be the best recycling partner for our customers. In today’s industrial environment, customers are looking to recycle more than metals. Companies are compelled to “go green.” This is nothing new to CASH’S. We were helping customers and the environment way before it was named after a color.
In 1996 we installed our first cardboard bailer for a customer. Since then we have installed several bailers for uses from cardboard to paper. This is not only good for the environment; it also helps to reduce landfill costs.
Fun Facts
- Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy used to make aluminum cans from virgin ore.
- In 1972, 53 million pounds of aluminum cans were recycled. Today, that amount is exceeded by 1,612 million pounds.
- Aluminum cans distinguish themselves as the most recycled and most recyclable beverage container in the world. An awesome 105,784 cans are recycled every minute nationwide.
- For each pound of aluminum recovered, Americans save the energy resources needed to generate about 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's enough energy saved each year by recycling aluminum to meet the lighting needs of a city the size of Pittsburgh, PA for six years.
- Beverage containers represent less than 20 percent of the materials collected in curbside recycling programs and they generate up to 70 percent of total scrap value. Aluminum cans are the most valuable commodity to curbside programs helping to pay for the collection of other containers.
- It's estimated that since 1972 some 18.7 million tons of aluminum have been recycled. These 1,099 billion aluminum cans placed end-to-end could stretch to the moon and back some 174 times.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.
- Recycling aluminum creates 97% less water pollution than producing new metal from ore.
