How Can Returning Your Bottles and Cans Help Make a Positive Impact?

When you have a collection of bottles and cans piling up, it might be tempting to toss them all in the recycling bin. If you, like many, are interested in helping make a positive impact on Michigan’s environment, you can do your part to help out by returning your empty beverage containers at your local bottle return and can return stations! But how exactly does returning your empty bottles and cans help positively impact Michigan’s environment? If you are looking for more ways that you can make a positive impact, here’s just a few ways that taking your bottles and cans back helps contribute!

Reducing Harmful Emissions From Manufacturing

One of the best ways that returning your empty bottles and cans helps to contribute to a cleaner environment is by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide released from the manufacturing of new bottles and cans! For every 12 pack of aluminum cans returned at any of Michigan’s can returns, the overall carbon emissions released from the processing and manufacturing of new containers is reduced by about 1.8 pounds, which is roughly the same amount that is produced when powering the average US home for 3.5 hours!

Helping to Conserve Important Resources

When you return your empty bottles and cans at your local grocery store you are also helping to conserve important reusable resources! With 100% of every container reused in the manufacturing of new bottles and cans, returning your empties at your local bottle return and can return stations helps to reduce the amount of Aluminum, glass and plastic used! Also helping to reduce the amount of waste generated from discarded bottles and cans, returning your empty containers directly contributes to a more sustainable Michigan!

Helping to reduce harmful emissions and conserve resources like glass, aluminum, and plastic, when you are looking to help make a positive impact in contributing to a more sustainable Michigan, you can do so when you return your empty bottles and cans at your local grocery store! If you would like to learn more about how returning your empty beverage containers helps contribute to a healthier environment, we invite you to contact us at Take Em Back today!