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Generally it will be included with other nonspecific waste and sent to disposal sites such as landfill sites. Here it is buried under tons of dirt and waste and left. Due to aluminum's chemical nature, it degrades unbelievably slowly unless it comes into contact with specific disruptive chemicals.As a result it is a very bad idea to not recycle cans as it is a waste of the Earth's limited aluminum reserves, and the energy required to refine new aluminum for the cans is also quite great.

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