2. About Cans Against Cancer
Cans Against Cancer is an organization
whose objective is to raise money to help
aid the fight against child hood cancer, and
also assist families who battle it daily.
3. Our Goal
Our Goal is to raise 5,000 dollars to fight
the battle against cancer.
To complete this goal Cans Against
Cancer needs to recycle 220,000 cans
which is 6,666 pounds. With your help, this
goal can be easily reached, and
surpassed.
4. How?
Cans Against Cancer collects all used or
unused aluminum cans and trades them
in at local recycling facilities such as
“Schnitzer-Cartersville Scrap Metal Yard,”
for cash. Schnitzer-Cartersville has offered
75 cents a pound for our cans. Which is 25
percent higher than the national average
for recycled cans, do to our charitable
efforts.
5. Proceeds
Proceeds are then donated to charities
such as “The American Childhood Cancer
Foundation.” And “The American Cancer
Society.”
Cans Against Cancer does use proceeds
to also cover mileage cost that build up
from collecting and trading cans at the
facilities.
6. Childhood Cancer
Each year in the U.S. there are
approximately 13,400 children between
the ages of birth and 19 years of age who
are diagnosed with cancer. In 1998,
about 2500 died of cancer, thus making
cancer the most common cause of death
by disease for children and adolescents in
America.
7. Aluminum waste
Last year, approximately 36 billion aluminum cans were
landfilled. The cans that were thrown away had an
estimated scrap value of more than $600 million.
It is estimated that over the past twenty years, we've
trashed more than 11 million tons of aluminum
beverage cans worth over $12 billion on today's market.
8. Just by simply saving your used aluminum
cans and letting Cans Against Cancer
pick them up you can aid the fight
against cancer.
9. Thank you for you time!
Save lives. Save earth. Beat Cancer.
