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The U.S. Conference of Mayors, Novelis Inc. and Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) recently named the City of Des Plaines as a winner in the fourth annual Cans for Cash: City Recycling Challenge. The announcement came at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 76th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. Des Plaines recycled a total of 1,120,660 pounds to become a $5,000 winner in "Category 3," which is a city with a population of 50,000-99,999. Des Plaines had also won this challenge in 2005. To encourage recycling the program challenges like-sized cities to compete against each other in aluminum can collection for monetary awards. During October 2007, more than 50 cities collected over 191 million used beverage cans. The aluminum can is the country’s most recycled beverage container and has been for more than 20 years. In 2006, U.S. recyclers recovered nearly 52% of the more than 100 billion aluminum beverage cans that were produced in the country. Still, more than a billion dollars worth of aluminum cans were not recovered, highlighting the importance of programs such as Cans for Cash to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling. The goals of the Recycling Challenge complement this and demonstrate how aluminum can recycling positively impacts the environment. Participating cities contributed to the recycling of more than 4.5 million pounds of aluminum cans. By recycling these aluminum cans, cities avoided more than 24,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is equivalent to taking more than 25,000 cars off the road for a year. Des Plaines will use the prize money to increase and enhance recycling efforts throughout Des Plaines.
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