ALCOA, Tenn. — The United States trails Brazil, Germany, Russia and some other countries in its rate of recycling aluminum beverage cans, and Alcoa Inc.'s chief executive said Friday that needs to change.
The Pittsburgh-based company dedicated an expansion of its aluminum can recycling operation in East Tennessee, a $24 million investment that a spokesman said makes it the largest such operation under one roof.
Alcoa President and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld said the expansion will help support a goal of boosting the current 54 percent rate of recycling beverage cans in the U.S. to 75 percent by 2015.
The current rate of recycled beverage cans is 75 percent in Russia, 91 percent in Germany and 95 percent in Brazil, according to Alcoa.
A company statement said the 75 percent recycling rate can be achieved in the United States if each person recycles one more can each week.
"Actually it is not very difficult to do," Kleinfeld told more than 100 people at the dedication.
The new equipment at the Alcoa complex in the Smoky Mountain foothills includes a crusher and a delacquering furnace.
豫公网安备41010502003434号