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180 Billion Aluminum Beverage Cans

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What if aluminum can usage went up 5%?

What if it went down 5%?

How many do you use?

How many should you use?

The people of the world go through 180 billion aluminum beverage cans a year; enough to build dozens of towers to the moon. Ball makes about a quarter of them.

To line the hundred billion beverage cans we Americans gobble up every year takes about twenty million gallons of epoxy coatings.

In a 2010 interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, in the Yale University online magazine Environment 360, he said, “Right now, it (BPA) is the most studied chemical in the world. NIH has $30 million of ongoing studies of this chemical. Do you think that federal officials in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan, would all have this as the highest priority chemical to study, if there were only a few alarmists saying it was a problem?”

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