Good news all you recycling fiends out there! We’re winning! Recent news is that over fifty percent of all aluminum cans are being recycled! That’s a real green solution!

That’s a great percentage.

Those of us who are like Jeff Goldblum’s character David Levinson in Independence day, when we fish someone else’s coke can out of the trash just like, are making a difference.

Yes, The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute and the Institute of Scrap Recycling recently announced that in 2008, 54.2 percent of aluminum cans were recycled.

Aluminum can be reused over and over. An empty coke can can be recycled and back on the store shelves in two months. Recycling used cans into new ones uses 95 percent less energy to create as well.

Keep recycling America!