The City of Denver has announced the next phase of the City’s expanded recycling education program to increase the collection of more aluminum beverage cans citywide. This follows the implementation of phase one in 2017 throughout pilot communities in Denver. Because nearly 75% of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today, cans uniquely contribute to the economic health of municipal recycling programs. In order to transition the process, residents will see tags on their carts, easy to follow information cards in their mailboxes and other think outside the trash messages throughout the city all summer long. The city of Denver has partnered with The Recycling Partnership and has special support of the Can Capture Group – a consortium of national can manufacturers: Anheuser-Busch; Ardagh Group; Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings, aluminum suppliers: Novelis and Tri-Arrows Aluminum, and the Can Manufacturers Institute.
“Denver is proud to team up once again with The Recycling Partnership and the Can Capture Group and to be the first city in the country to run this challenge to recycle every aluminum we can in the metro area,” Mayor Michael Hancock said. “We’re ready to take our recycling to the next level by challenging our residents citywide to recycle every can they can starting this summer so we can raise our recycling and composting rate to 34% by 2020.”
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