Cans For Habitat

 Danville-Pittsylvania County Habitat for Humanity recycles cans to help build houses! Five million cans build one house!

Habitat Office at 503 Hughes Street

Wal-Mart Parking Lot

Waste Management sites at Blairs

City Recycling Center at Piedmont Mall

Not sure your cans are aluminum? Do the magnet test: If the magnet sticks to the can, "It's not aluminum"

If you want more information on the Cans for Habitat Recycling Program, can help transport cans, or would like someone to come and speak on the ministry of Habitat at your organization, Give us a call at:

(434) 793-3630

Fun Recycling Facts!
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy run a television for three hours.

-When an aluminum can is recycled, it is back on the grocery shelf as another aluminum can within 60 days.

-There is no limit to the number of times an aluminum can can be recycled.

 Every day one hundred million aluminum beverage cans are sent to the landfill, littered, or incinerated in the US.

-More than one million tons of aluminum containers and packaging are thrown away each year. -Recycling 1 ton of aluminum saves the equivalent in energy of 2,350 gallons of gasoline. This is the equivalent to the amount of electricity used by the average home over a period of 10 years! -Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild a commercial air fleet every three months!