"This isn't your mom's aluminum foil! Okay, wait it might be. Literally!"

That nifty slogan comes from If You Care, one of the few brands that makes 100 perce... read full tip

"This isn't your mom's aluminum foil! Okay, wait it might be. Literally!"

That nifty slogan comes from If You Care, one of the few brands that makes 100 percent recycled aluminum foil. Because aluminum can theoretically be recycled indefinitely, it is indeed possible that aluminum foil recycled by your mother has made it into a roll of recycled foil you'll buy today.

Producing 100 percent recycled aluminum requires 95 percent less energy than making aluminum from virgin ore. Therefore, you'll be helping to conserve energy by purchasing the recycled variety, which is available from Amazon.com if it isn't at your neighborhood grocery store. And don't worry about sacrificing quality-recycled foil performs just as well as foil made from primary materials.

Although it would be great if everyone in the country could buy recycled foil, there just isn't enough recycling going on in order to allow this. But, if we could step up our efforts to the point where all of the aluminum foil purchased was 100 percent recycled, the energy savings would total more than 7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year-more than what 600,000 U.S. households consume annually.