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How could the two different types of metal used to make cans be sorted out for recycling?
Steel is magnetic, but aluminum is not - therefore if you have a pile of cans, a magnet will pick up the steel ones, leaving the aluminum ones behind !
Is recycling a Enviromental Policy?
Yes it is. Recycling saves a lot of energy. It's much easier to make steel and aluminum cans out of recycled cans than it is to make them from scratch. Same with paper from paper, rather than from trees. Same with glass. Same with plastic.
How much energy is saved when Steel is recycled instead of mined?
Recycling steel and iron saves 75% of the energy needed to make it from iron ore. Every year America saves enough from recycling steel to provide Los Angeles with electricity for ten years! Or 18 million households for one year!In 1996 US Steelmakers remelted almost 19 billion steel cans (58% of all cans sold)! That's about 600 steel cans every second.
How much money would you get recycling a pound of beer cans?
It depends on how much a pound of aluminum is going for. The fact that they're beer cans won't make any difference.
How many cans can a can maker make if a can maker can make cans?
A can maker can make all the cans he can, 'cause a can maker can make cans. But if it's tin cans the can maker really wants to make, he'll hafta buy lots of steel.
Can you make money off of recycling?
yes you can by giving it to a recycling company.
Can you make money off recycling?
yes you can by giving it to a recycling company.
What element in the periodic table is used for plate steel and to make cans?
Tin is used for electroplating. it is also used to make cans.
What do factories make out of recycled soup cans?
Any sort of recycled cans can be made into anything from other cans to parts for the Space Shuttle. That's the good thing about recycling, you never know.
What kind of metal are garbage cans usually made from?
The metal used to make garbage cans is galvanized steel. This steel is meant to withstand the toughest enviroments to last you a lifetime. These galvanized steel garbage cans are treated with zinc to help corrosion resistance.
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!)
How does recycling cans compare with making them new?
Cans, steel and aluminum, are 100% recyclable.Making one new can out of aluminum ore takes TWENTY TIMES the energy that it does to make one new can using recycled cans.Every time you recycle ONE aluminum can, you save enough energy to run a TV for three hours!
