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History

Originated in Napoleon’s time around the 1800’s

Didn’t make its debut until 1965

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Process of Recycling

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Material Recycling Facility

This process is used to sort

Sorts the different types of recycling material from each other

After being sorted they are put into piles or bales.

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How to Sort?Things like plastic bags are

removed by hand

To separate paper from heavier materials fans are used

Magnets are used to pick up the steel products

In some MRFs optical light beams , with compressed air jets, are used to separate plastic and glass.

Electrical currents are used to separate the aluminium cans. 

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Melting Facility

Cans are then sent here, or also know as a smelters.

Heated to 500 degrees Celsius

Rolled into sheets of aluminium 2.5mm thick

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Can Making Facilities

Where the sheets of aluminum are shipped to make new cans

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Easy to Recycle

Its 100% Recyclable

Just drink all of your soda, or dump it out, and place it in a recycling tub.

Collecting them is fine and then take them to a recycling center in a trash bag.

You can make money recycling cans.

Opportunities

119,482 cans are recycled every minute nationwide

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Challengehttp://www.epa.gov/epawaste/

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Companies and Places

Scrap yards by cans back from you.

ABC Recycling

Dillons

Glickman, Inc.

Homeland

Kamen Inc.

Kansas Can

Wichita Iron and Metals Corp

Pro KS – Miller Recycling Center

Quick Service Steel

New Items

Smelted, and used to form artistic figures but gives off to many toxins.

Smashed and formed into art forms

Mostly just renewed into other Aluminum Cans

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ReasonsThe aluminum beverage containers is the most

valuable beverage container to be recycled.

By recycling this it provides environmental and economic benefits to communities and organizations across the country.

Can be recycled many times

Renewing a can from an old one only requires 5% of the energy than using raw materials

Number of cans recycled in the U.S. annually saves enough energy to power the nation’s capital for 3.7 years.