Nothing will happen to your scrap metal. It will be taken to a land fill. Do yourself some good, and take it to a scrap yard, sell it, make some money, and keep that scrap out of the landfills.
it stays there for thousands of years, as foil has metal in it, it does not decompose
Scrapped typically means, junked, disposed of, removed, reduced, thrown away, waste product. It can be used however to denote the recyling of metal, as in scrap metal.
it hardens
it dies
It's an effort to recycle metal objects that aren't good for anything anymore. Scrap metal drives are important because it is easy to reuse metal rather than throw it away because it's so durable. Scrap metal drives were the earliest efforts at recycling.
it pollutes the atmosphere
It gets thrown away.
Nothing at all.
Alot of things can be thrown away like broken toys, metal scraps, chip packets bottle lids and more
tons obviously
it pollutes the atmosphere
It goes to a landfill.