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What useful material may be obtained from bauxite?
Aluminum in soft-drink cans comes from the mineral bauxite.
How long does it take to recycle one can?
Aluminum can be recycled forever, but not necessarily in the same form. Cans may be melted down to make aluminum ingots to be used in the manufacture of new products (which may just be more cans).Infinitely! Infinitely! Infinitely!
What is the current price for scrap aluminum?
44 cents a pound for aluminum cans. if you are a scrapper collecting siding and such, then i think its only 40 cents or 41 cents a pound. i think a case of beer is about a little less than a pound empty cans. just imagine how many empty cases of beer you need to drink to buy another one for 12 bucks prices may be different around places. i priced a few places in the Chicago area. Baltimore metal inc pays 75 cents a pound for aluminum cans elgin recycle 44 cents a pound south shore is 35 cents a pound. Average is 40 cents a pound Scrap aluminum pricing depends on how clean/prepared your aluminum scrap is as well as the grade of aluminum scrap metal. Some basic pricing as of June 2011 is Aluminum Cans $0.67/lb Aluminum Cans - Crushed $0.70/lb Painted Aluminum Siding $0.60/lb Extruded Aluminum $0.70/lb Sheet Aluminum $0.52/lb Always make sure that the scrap yard you are dealing with is paying close to Comex/LME Pricing.
What is the unit price for the cans of lemonade at each of the stores?
Go ask at the stores. The price may vary from city to city.
What do they make by recycling metal cans?
My understanding is that ALUMINUM cans are melted down (and purified) and then (probably by adding to new aluminum ore) smelted into 'fresh' aluminum, that can be used for ANY process or manufacturing that uses aluminum...even potentially into brand new aluminum cans (or aluminum foil, etc.) Processing of Aluminum Ore (?bauxite?) uses HUGE amounts of electricity. I have seen aluminum referred to as "solid electricity" the process requires so much of it. At one point Aluminum was the most expensive metal in the world, even more than gold. That's one reason why the top of the Washington Monument in Washington DC is a block of solid aluminum...as it was so valuable. Remelting and recycling used aluminum is much more energy efficient than the processing of bauxite ore to obtain aluminum. Recycling not only keeps more materials out of landfills, it saves energy at the same tme! Steel cans (are there any steel cans any more?) would similarly be recycled by being added along with other steel scrap to blast furnaces smelting iron and steel. As with aluminum, it helps create 'new' steel for all sorts of manufacturing. The car you drive today may have been part of a WWI or WWII battleship, or maybe your dad's or grand-dad's old 57 Chevy. (Although, in the case of the 57 Chevy, it may have been worth more in that configuration than its worth after recycling!)
Do cans decay?
Decay may not be quite the right word. Metal cans do... eventually... corrode and break down. The length of time required depends on the metal the can is made of; steel cans can corrode fairly quickly while it takes longer for aluminum ones.
What can be made out of a can?
A can made of aluminum, metal, or tin can be recycled into other products. A can may be changed by placing holes in it and adding string to make walkie talkies or stilts. Paint, paper or Popsicle sticks can be used to decorate cans to use them as pencil holders. People often use cans to start new plants. Also, bread can be baked in cans.
What is the difference between tin foil and aluminum foil?
Aluminum and tin are two different elements. They have different physical and chemical properties. Tin is element 50. Aluminum is element 13. Tin is denser and has a lower melting point than aluminum. Tin can reach 2+ and 4+ oxidation states while aluminum can only achieve the 3+ oxidation state.
How is aluminum recycled?
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.
What is the price of a postage stamp in 2009?
As of May 2009, a stamp costs 44 cents.
Price of a postage stamp in 2009?
As of May 2009, a stamp costs 44 cents.
Are aluminum pull tabs worth more?
As Scrap Metal...NO. There are those who collect tabs for artwork or other uses and may be willing to pay more.But if sold as scrap metal, it is bought as aluminum and 1 pound of tabs is worth no more than 1 pound of aluminum cans.
