Cara Toronto fails to recycle aluminum cans

Recycling aluminum cans is one of the easiest things to do (and best for our environment), but did you know every time your plane lands in Toronto Pearson Airport, none of the pop cans you consumed on the flight gets recycled? (so does all the other recyclable garbage) This is due to possible probability of cross-contamination of disease-carrying agent from one country to another. However, domestic and transboarder recyclables ending up in Toronto Pearson are also being sent to be incinerated because Cara currently does not have the resources to separate those garbage from international ones to the standards of the health inspection board. If you have seen how much waste gets end up in Toronto Airport each day, this seems too much of a joke? I guess what I can say is that it's a complex issue.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/recycle-one-thing1.htm

What one thing should I recycle?

The recycling of aluminum, which is made from bauxite ore, is a closed-loop process, meaning that no new materials are introduced along the way. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable: Cans can be recycled over and over again without degrading. Because of this efficiency, more than two-thirds of all the aluminum ever produced is still in use today [source: Aluminum Now]. So the next time you're feeling lazy and the recycling bin seems so much farther away than the garbage can, you might want to think about the following:

Recycling aluminum prevents the need to mine for ore to create new aluminum. It requires 4 tons of ore to create 1 ton of aluminum.
Recycling aluminum cans takes 95 percent less energy than creating new ones.
The energy it takes to produce one can could produce 20 recycled cans.
The energy saved from recycling one aluminum can could power a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a television for three hours [sources: Can Manufacturers Institute, Russell].