Ronald McDonald House Charities of Morgantown, WV recycles
collected pop tabs to further support service to our families.
Pull together to keep families close.
Fun Facts to Know
In 2014, RMHC Morgantown made $4,400 from recycle pop tabs.
There are 1,267 pop tabs in one pound.
One pound of aluminum makes about 30 soda cans.
In only 60 days after they are recycled, aluminum cans can be turned into a new
can and put back on the shelves.
The thickness of the can is less than five-thousandths of an inch – 0.005” – about the
same as a magazine cover.
A pop tab withstands up to 110 pounds of tension exerted against it by the carbon dioxide in the
soda. But only 3-4 pounds of pull on the tab causes the tab to rupture, releasing the contents inside.
Last year Americans recycled over 62.6 billion aluminum cans. That many cans placed end to
end could circle the earth at its equator 171 times.
Aluminum does not rust.
10,433 empty aluminum beverage cans weigh as much as Shaq O’Neal.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.
Sources used – www.earth911.org and www.cancentral.com