Over 5 billion aluminum cans are recycled each year. If laid end to end, these cans would form a line reaching from?
IDK, but this may give you some idea of 1 billion. 1 Billion seconds ago.. It was 1959 1 Billion minutes ago... Christ was alive.
No, Ed. 1 billion seconds = 31.69 years, so it was the spring of 1976. Also 1 billion minutes ago = about 1901.3 years ago, so Christ would have been about 100. But I digress... Anyway, let's say the average aluminum can is 4.9 tall (I measured a Coke can). 5 billion cans would be 24.5 billion inches tall. This would be 386,679 miles. This would be from the Earth to the moon (about 250,000 miles) and halfway back again!
