Why Aluminum Cans? Recently, the 2010 aluminum can recycling rate was announced. Americans recycled approximately 56 billion aluminum cans last year, increasing the recycling rate to 58 percent â saving the energy equivalent of 17 million barrels of crude oil, or nearly two days of all U.S. oil imports.
Search Legal Terms and Definitions. subrogee. n. the person or entity that assumes the legal right to attempt to collect a claim of another (subrogor) in return for paying the other's expenses or debts which the other claims against a third party.
tail wagging the dog. Situation in which an apparently insignificant or powerless entity controls the larger system of which it is a part. The phrase âthe tail that wags the dogâ dates to the turn of the last century. In 1907, it appeared in Von Arnum's Fraulein Schmidt. F. Scott Fitzgerald used it in 1935. The meaning is quite obvious: the subsidiary part controls the major part.