"Can-DO!"
I have always loved working with yarns and threads and this year’s design taps into that in a similar way as my 2019 Recycled Runway design. Thankfully, my youngest daughter Julie Wynn-Horowitz Rivers is modeling my Recycled Runway creation again.
I am aiming to raise at least $2,000. Your vote/donation will go to support AMP’s empowering education programs AND David M. Hunt Library’s dlivery of heart-filled programs and offerings that serve people far beyond Falls Village.
I also hope to make people more aware of the benefits of recycling cans and reducing waste.
Did you know?
- People use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum cans every year.
- Aluminum takes 200-500 years to fully degrade in a landfill.
- More than one million tons of aluminum containers and packaging (soda cans, TV dinner trays, aluminum foil) are thrown away each year.
- Last year, approximately 36 billion aluminum cans were landfilled.
- The cans that were thrown away had an estimated scrap value of more than $600 million.
We “Can-Do” better!
- About 65 % of America's aluminum is currently recycled.
- Recycling Aluminum takes 95% less energy than making Aluminum from raw materials.
- The average aluminum can contains more than 50% post-consumer recycled aluminum.
- An aluminum can recycled today will be back on the grocery shelf in about 90 days!
Making aluminum cans from recycled aluminum takes 95% less energy than making cans from virgin ore.
There are about 7,500 can tabs crocheted together in this two-piece outfit. I could not have completed this without so many people collecting and giving me their can tabs from beverages and pet food cans, especially Ash Royer and Sarah Rosier who each gave me several pounds of tabs. Plus there were about 15 more people who collected tabs for me. It’s addicting, by the way; I have a difficult time resisting a tab on a can.
