Very few. Usually aluminum cans are used before being discarded. For example, they are filled with softdrink, then sold, and then discarded. So technically, not many aluminum cans are actually 'wasted' each year because they are 'used' in the first place.
Let's say the car cost $3,000. Cans are about ten cents each. It would take you 30,000 cans.
90,000 cans are thrown away every minute by Americans ourselves.Sad, huh?
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It is estimated that over 100 billion aluminum cans are thrown away each year worldwide. These cans can take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills, making recycling them an important environmental initiative. Recycling aluminum cans also saves energy and reduces the demand for raw materials.
Roughly 3,300 empty (obviously) 12 oz. aluminum cans.
The average person in the UK uses around 160 aluminum cans per year.
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There are about 32 crushed aluminum cans in a kilogram.
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There are approximately 25 empty 12-ounce aluminum cans that make up a pound.
Rounded: 30 cans.