Most steel cans collected in one month
Who
Collect-a-Can
Where
South Africa (Johannesburg)
When
The most steel cans collected in one month is 2,656,284, weighing 82,929 kg (182,827 lb 2 oz) and was achieved by Collect-a-Can (South Africa) in South Africa, between 1-31 October 2010. Collect-a-Can first attempted this record in 2007, and has broken their own records twice since. Collections occurred at schools across the country for the month of October to promote the recylcing of cans in South Africa.