Fact about recycling cans.

Aluminum Cans Recycling Facts

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Aluminum Cans Recycling Facts

Overview

The average aluminum can in America has 40 percent post-consumer recycled aluminum, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
When you throw away aluminum products, such as beverage cans and food containers, they end up in landfills. But if you recycle them, you conserve energy and help to prevent landfills from increasing.

Function

The aluminum can recycling process starts with the consumer, who cleans and sorts aluminum cans and then places them in the proper container for pickup or takes them directly to a recycling center. Workers then sort out high-quality aluminum items and discard any useless bits, such as pieces contaminated by dirt, wood, glass, plastic or other foreign materials. Workers melt down the selected pieces and shape them into ingots, which they later roll out into large sheets. Manufacturers buy the sheets and use them to make aluminum products.

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Features

Recycling aluminum cans reduces waste that contributes to the problem of overflowing landfills. Recycling cans also conserves energy because the aluminum-recycling process uses less than 5 percent of the energy that the manufacture of new aluminum from bauxite ore requires, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

Significance

In 2008, aluminum was 1.3 percent of the total amount of municipal solid waste, for a total of 3.4 million tons, according to the EPA. Compare that to 1960, when aluminum was only 0.4 percent or 340,000 tons. These totals do not include the aluminum present in automobiles, which is measured separately. The largest category of aluminum waste in 2008 was used containers, such as beverage and food cans, according to the EPA.

Conservation Benefits

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources lists the conservation benefits of recycling aluminum. Recycling a single aluminum can conserves as much energy as 6 ounces of gasoline. In 2000, the United States recycled 54.8 million aluminum cans, conserving the energy equivalent of 2.58 billion gallons of gasoline. The aluminum not recycled in the United States that year would have saved the equivalent of another 2.15 billion gallons of gasoline.

Potential

The increasing use of plastics for beverage containers and other products is lowering the demand for aluminum products, according to industry sources cited by the EPA. But demand may increase as car manufacturers develop new, lighter car technologies in their efforts to increase fuel efficiency.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/138336-aluminum-cans-recycling-facts/#ixzz1KIm16azJ

Can's and their uses.

Uses for Aluminum Cans

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Uses for Aluminum Cans

Americans use a huge number of aluminum cans. Luckily, they also recycle a huge number of them. More than 100,000 cans are recycled each minute, according to Earth 911. Recycling and reusing aluminum is common because it is supported by the industry and the government. Aluminum is an incredibly durable metal that does not become degraded during recycling and reuse. Cans can be recycled and reused as new cans, parts of cars or even in your garden.

New Cans

Because aluminum is such a sustainable metal, it saves money and natural resources to recycle cans and turn them into new cans. Drop off your old cans at a recycling center or leave them out for pickup, and they are sent to a used beverage container center for processing. Then they are melted down, along with scrap from old cans, and reformed into new cans. This process uses 95 percent less energy compared to using virgin materials, according to Earth 911; It takes only about two months for the can to be filled and put back on a supermarket shelf after you recycle it.

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New Cars

According to the Aluminum Association, after producing new cans, the second most common use of aluminum is making cars. More than six billion pounds of aluminum have been used for automobile manufacturing. The Environmental Protection Agency states that aluminum is valuable for use in cars because it is strong and lightweight, which makes cars more fuel efficient.

Gardens

You may not associate aluminum with gardening, but cans can be helpful for growing plants. Cut cans in half with scissors and flip them over so that the open side faces up. Poke small holes in the bottom of the half that does not have the hole in it. Pack some dirt inside these containers, and use them to sprout your new plants indoors. You can start growing small herbs in these containers or larger plants that you then transplant to a garden outside when they are strong enough to weather the elements.

Once you replant your plants outside, use the aluminum cans for labels. Paper labels that come with plants are usually not as durable as aluminum. The Instructables website describes how to make markers for your garden by cutting the can into squares, carving the name of the plant into the aluminum with a pen, poking a hole in the metal and pushing a piece of wire through the hole and into the ground in your garden.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/150177-uses-for-aluminum-cans/#ixzz1KIkX5PH3

Bohemian Supporting Record Store Day

Today is officially the Record Store Day!!!

Join us down at Slow Train Records www.slowtrainrecords.com for the annual record store day weekend.

Slowtrain is located at 221 E Broadway, near the corner of 300 South and 200 East, in downtown Salt Lake City.

Slowtrain Record Store Day Savings Account: Starting March 1, 2011 we want to give you the chance to open a Slowtrain Record Store Day Savings Account and get some money back on your investment too!

Live Music:

Birthquake - 11am
Trappers - 12pm
Paul Jacobsen - 1pm
Ryan Tanner - 2pm
American Shakes - 3pm
Plastic Furs - 4pm
Jay William Henderson - 5pm
Desert Noises - 6pm
Joshua James - 7pm

Exclusive Releases: Click here for a list of the official releases. You can download this form and use as a checklist for your RSD needs!

Slowtrain Lounge: 2011's Slowtrain Lounge will be hosted by the Salt Lake City Film Festival! They'll be serving up delicious, ice-cold, locally-brewed Bohemian (we are Brozeks after all) beer. Yum and fun! A good portion of all the money made in the Lounge will go to support the wonderful works of the Salt Lake City Film Festival. We are so proud to partner with them and support the great work they do for film in SLC.

Gallery Stroll: We'll be open late drinking Bohemian beer as we try to spy RSD Elves setting up exclusive releases in our racks. Let's make it a holiday tradition like pie and mistletoe! Instead it will be delicious beer and limited edition music. Join us for the fun and know that your beer purchases support great art in SLC.

Giving Back: Slowtrain is proud to partner with Breathe Utah, Salt Lake City Film Festival, and Local First Utahthroughout Record Store Day. We're happy to support these incredible local non-profits and we hope you'll give them your support too!

Food, Craft, Music Fair: We're turning our back parking lot into a mini-fair for this year's RSD festivities. We'll have excellent booths set up from Craft Lake City artists selling their wares. You can support local business, local music, and local art just by attending RSD. Breath Utah will be providing you shoppers with an appetite some yummy food - and your purchases will go towards an excellent cause...helping to clean up our nasty Utah air. We'll have live music, discount records and CDs, and just lots of fun. Plus we'll have fun and interactive booths from Local First, Slug Magazine, and others! It's going to be a BLAST!

T-shirts and Totes: This year we are PROUD to offer an new Slowtrain t-shirt and LP totes just in time for RSD. This design was made just for us by the incredible musician and artist, Owen Ashworth, from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, aka, Advance Base. We'll be selling these items throughout the year and a portion of the proceeds will go to Spy Hop Productions.

Questions? Comments? Sent 'em to us at RSD@slowtrainmusic.com - write RSD 2011 in the subject header.

This one goes out to a great record store you got in town. It's called Slowtrain. This one's for them. It's called Spin The Black Circle..." -- [Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam]

Is Beer Good For You?

Beer and Health

Just about everyone who enjoys beer has wondered if it is good or bad for their health. There is no simple answer to this question. But, the vast majority of beer aficionados are neither neo-prohibitionists, nor alcoholics; they are folks like you who Savor the Flavor Responsibly®.

In our society, we are taught from an early age that alcohol consumption is a social vice, and one only to be risked by adults. This is an oversimplification of a very complex set of historical, social, and health-related issues that have made beer a very integral part of history. Beer has been intertwined in American culture since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. The end of Prohibition marked the only constitutional amendment to ever be repealed. As a society, we've had a love-hate relationship with our drink; the history of beer alone is enough to make you wonder.

Well, wonder no more. An ever-growing body of research confirms that responsibly enjoying beer as part of a healthy diet can promote your well being. In fact, the USDA dietary guidelines specifically mention the health benefits of moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages. The next time you pour yourself a craft beer, or maybe you are enjoying one now, you should know that there are a variety of health benefits from moderate consumption of your favorite malted beverage, including longevity, decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney stones, and more. On the flip side, overindulgence of beer, or any alcoholic beverage, will have negative effects.

One excellent source for information on both the positive and negative effects of alcohol consumption is the Foundation for Alcohol Research (ABMRF). ABMRF funds and supports research on the medical and social effects of alcohol consumption, and distributes a weekly email update which summarizes and links to current research findings. You can sign up to receive these updates at the bottom right of the ABMRF homepage. A directorysummarizing ABMRF funded research since 1982 is also available. ABMRF research is supported in part by U.S. and Canadian brewers, beer importers, suppliers, wholesalers, individuals, as well as the Brewers Association, publishers of CraftBeer.com. ABMRF can also be found on Facebook and Twitter, with posts outlining current research topics and results.

Here are a few more articles exploring beer and health:

• "Defensive Drinking: Alcohol and Your Health" - Brighams and Women's Hospital
• "Alcohol over time: Still under control?" - The Harvard Medical School
• "Celiac Disease, Beer and Brewing" - Michael J. Lewis

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Chris Swersey is the Technical Brewing Projects Coordinator for the Brewers Association and he monitors the topic of Beer and Health for the Association. He can be reached at chris@brewersassociation.org.

New York Loves our Cherny Bock Schwarzbier!

Yeah I know, I got a lot of big-name brewery beers while I was in NYC, so why I am reviewing a lesser-known brewery from Utah? Well, it's Sunday afternoon and I want something to just chill out with that would be a quick and easy to review. Plus I've never had a beer from Utah before, so that sounded like fun to me. I do have something special planned for all of next week, though!

B / 3.68 rDev -7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

I poured a 12oz can into a tulip class (because the can actually recommends a tulip for this beer)

Appearance: jet black with hazy ruby red glow on the underside. Forms a two-finger, off-white, soapy head. Retention is decent with minor lacing.

Smell: Lager yeast and slight toasted malts. Fairly sweet-smelling, but for the most part it's unaromatic.

Taste: For such a statistically "small" beer Cherny Bock has a lot of flavor, especially for a lager. Despite the name, this beer is more in the style of a schwarzbier than a bock with light malty sweetness up front and distinct roasted malt on the backend. Seems a bit like a light cola with an almost artificial sweetener taste at the beginning and end, but the can indicates this beer is brewed under the conditions of the Germany Purity Law of 1516.

While not the most robust beer in the world, the roasted malt flavor remains quite strong throughout and finishes mostly clean with a slight biscuity aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Thin, cold and wet, but not watery per se. Seems noticeably fizzy at first, but carbonation seems to die down quickly. Not quite a light-bodied beer, but on the lower end of medium-bodied.

Drinkability: With a mild, but genuinely flavorful palate combined with easy mouthfeel, Cherny Bock is indeed a sessionable beer at only 4% ABV. It's refreshing while it's in the mouth and goes down extremely smooth. Might be too mild to stand up to a meal, but could be used as a beverage for chips and finger foods or just to session a six-pack while watching the game.

Overall, an impressive beer for what it's able to accomplish. Nothing spectacular in the big scheme of things, though, but will satisfy most beer drinkers.

National Beer Day

Today is national beer day. What does that mean?

Well, here's a little history:

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be beer pourer-outers.

It's impossible to fathom that a mere 77 years ago a person couldn't legally drink beer in this country. But for 13 years - from the moment "The Great (Failed) Experiment" was enacted on January 16, 1920 through 1933 - that was precisely the case. Although the actual repeal of Prohibition occurred on December 5 of that year, beer drinkers got a reprieve a full eight months beforehand. On April 7 then President Franklin D. Roosevelt repealed the Volstead Act (aka the National Prohibition Act), legalizing 3.2% alcohol by weight beer. In the first 24-hours after Roosevelt signed on the dotted line over 1.5 million barrels of beer were consumed. The country was thirsty... for beer!

Over the years there have been a few - rather failed - attempts at recognizing April 7 as the historic day it is. And not just because it ironically happens to also be my day of birth. In 2003 the Brewers' Association (then known as the Brewers' Association of America) announced a national promotion called New Beer's Eve. "People need to be reminded of the single biggest cause of brewery closure," said Daniel Bradford, who was the President of the BAA then (he's now the publisher of the prestigious All About Beer magazine). "Prohibition lead to the demise of thousands of breweries and the creation of a violent criminal element. We need to remember this travesty, because it could happen again." While truer words were never spoken, this campaign never really took off. In 2008 there was a big deal made about 75 Years of Beer, complete with "Celebrate April 7th" posters, but then that got morphed into a "Celebrate December 5th" thing instead, which made it all confusing. A few weeks ago I found something on the new CraftBeer.com website called Brew Years Eve. Personally, I'm not a big fan of that name. It's too kitschy and doesn't really impart the significance of the day.