Mayor Martin Dyer announced Wenesday that the City of Ardmore, Habitat for Humanity, and the Ardmore Beautification Council will participate in the Cans 4 Cash City Recycling Challenge this year.
The contest, created by The United States Conference of Mayors and Novelis Corporation in partnership with Keep America Beautiful challenges cities across the country to collect recyclable aluminum beverage cans while developing innovative ideas for promoting participation.
The challenge lasts four weeks, from Oct. 1 to 31.
Schools, businesses, churches, civic groups and individuals are encouraged to get involved.
“Over the past five years, hundreds of participating cities nationwide have recycled over 500 million aluminum cans,” said Lena Sullivan, ABC recycliing committee co-chair.
“This is an effort we want our community involved in because we think participating in the KAB aluminum can project is one of the easiest ways to educate our community about how easy recycling can be,” Sullivan said.
There are two ways to participate:
1. Interested persons can contact the ABC to have a recycling container brought to them. After the container is filled, contact the ABC and officials will have the cans picked up and sold, entering the amount collected in Ardmore’s contest.
2. Or, you can collect the cans, sell them at OK Iron and Metal Company a 700 P St. N.E. and keep the proceeds, leaving the receipt at OK Iron and Metal so the poundage collected can go towards Ardmore’s contest efforts.
To ask questions about the challenge, contact the Ardmore Beautification Council at (580) 223-2230 or at abc.ardmore@sbcglobal.net.
This year, Habit for Humanity will receive the money from the local Cans 4 Cash effort.
The Aluminum Association, a Washington, D.C.,-based trade group representing aluminum producers, reports that recycling is good for the environment because aluminum is the most valuable material in the household recycling bin.
Each year, 50 billion aluminum cans are added to landfills, on a planet already struggling with countless environmental issues, every town can make a significant difference by stepping up its recycling efforts.
Novelis, a spin-off of Alcan and an Atlanta based-company, is a global leader in aluminum rolling and can recycling. KAB is a national, nonprofit public education organization whose goal is to form community partnerships dedicated to empowering individuals to take greater responsibility for enhancing their community environments.
The ABC is a nonprofit, operating foundation that coordinates community improvement in Ardmore and a KAB affiliate.
Ardmore will compete with other cities of the same size across the nation on this recycling effort. According to ABC recycling committee co-chair Sarah Clay, “The Cans 4 Cash contest helps creates an awareness of local recycling options. It is so easy that everyone can be involved, helping Habitat for Humanity and benefiting our community.”
