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Many consumers don’t realize that aluminum foil containers can be safely used in today’s microwave ovens. In fact, when microwaving with aluminum, microwaves enter from the top, heating food from the center out for more uniform heating or cooking.

When microwaving with aluminum, microwaves enter from the top, heating food from the center out for more uniform cooking. Microwaving instructions are simple:

• Remove all lids (cover with a paper towel) • Heat one food container at a time • Center container in the oven, away from walls • Microwave in ovens made after 1980

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Aluminum’s tri-ovenability permits fast and fl exible food preparation. Consumers can defrost in the microwave, heat in the oven and brown in the broiler without ever changing containers. Throughout the heating cycle in whatever oven is used, aluminum retains its bright, attractive appearance, while the food maintains its flavor and appeal

Another one of aluminum’s environmental advantages is its recyclabilty.

Aluminum has an inherent value. As the leading recycled material in world, aluminum helps pay for many municipal recycling programs, saves billions of dollars annually in energy costs, helps create thousands of jobs and tax dollars in the collecting and processing industries and lowers the cost of aluminum.

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The amount of aluminum recycled has doubled in the past ten years and now represents 28% of the scrap value of all recycled materials. It all adds up—recycling aluminum makes sound commercial as well as environmental sense.

Aluminum is the most valuable consumer recycled material. At over $1,200 per ton, it is more than three times more valuable than the next most valuable material available for recycling.

Recycling helps the community—In our schools, homes and streets, recycling has become a daily part of American life. Its impact is especially felt in our communities where less aluminum trash means less litter and helps conserve landfill space.