How is aluminum recycled?

Answer 1

Products in cans are purchased, consumed and cans are disposed. If disposal is not driven to recycling, garbage collectors transport cans with any other trash to sanitary embankment. Cans are then collected in the embankment, by an organized process or by poor people in search for valuable items at the embankment to sell and make some money.

Cans are sold to junk-dealers. Junk-dealers may have the ability to crush the cans or sell to someone who does it.

Then cans go to an aluminum second level casting company. Melted aluminum is turned into ingots which are laminated in a rolling mill. A can factory produces new (recycled) cans which are filled with products and shipped to store and a new cycle is initiated.

Curiosities:

1) Beverage cans can have a life cycle between 30 and 45 days.

2) Electricity savings between producing one single aluminum can and recycling it is enough to keep a TV working for 3 hours or a 100 Watts lamp for 20 hours.

3) One pound, kilo, ton of recycled aluminum saves 5 times the same amount of bauxite, the core mineral to produce aluminum.

Answer 2

Aluminum (Brit. aluminium) is a chemical element; as such, it is infinitely recyclable. And recycling is far cheaper than extracting more aluminum from bauxite (its main ore).

To recycle aluminum, it just has to be separated out, washed, and remelted.

The consumer throws aluminium cans and foil into a recycle bin. The aluminium is then collected and taken to a treatment plant. In the treatment plant the aluminium is sorted and cleaned ready for reprocessing. It then goes through a re-melt process and turns into molten aluminium, this removes the coatings and inks that may be present on the aluminium. The aluminium is then made into large blocks called ingots. Each ingot contains about 1.6 million drinks cans. The ingots are sent to mills where they are rolled out, this gives the aluminium greater flexibility and strength. This is then made into aluminium products such as cans, chocolate wrapping and ready meal packaging. In as little as 6 weeks, the recycled aluminium products are then sent back to the shops ready to be used again.
take it to the recycling place. you get more for copper

Answer 3

• Recycle used aluminum cans (collect and send to recycling center)
• cans are cleaned, crushed and made into bales
• bales are sent to aluminum plant
  
• cans are shredded, remelted with new metal and cast into ingots
• the ingots are rolled out to make aluminum sheets
• rolls of sheets are shipped to can plants
• new aluminum cans are made
  
• cans are shipped to drink manufacturers
• transportion of filled cans to retailers
• cans are sold to customers.

Recycling aluminum requires only 5% of the energy and produces only 5% of the CO2 emissions as compared with primary production and reduces the waste going to landfill.

Answer 4

In the US, at stores, like Wal-Mart, Meijer, and VG's

Answer 5

you can throw aluminum cans in the recycle can from my knowledge

Answer 6

One stop recycling gives you a good deal on aluminum.