aluminum recycling
Smelting beverage containers
Aluminum recycling is the process of collecting and reprocessing aluminum products—especially beverage cans—into new material.
Because aluminum can be melted and reformed indefinitely without losing quality, recycling it uses far less energy than producing new aluminum from ore: The city expanded its aluminum recycling program.
The practice is both economically viable and environmentally significant.
- scrapDiscarded bit or tussle
- scrap yardSalvage facility for metal
- cansSealed metal containers
- soda cansAluminum beverage containers
- beer canAluminum ale container
smelting · bauxite · crushed · melting · shredder · bales · redemption · deposit · foil · pie tin · beverage · bottle deposit · crusher · ingots · waste · reprocessing · refinery · collection
- recyclingMRF, single-stream, curbside, curbside pickup, blue bin
aluminum recyclingocean dumping
Depositing waste in seas
trashing · littering · illegal dumping · incineration · waste incineration
aluminum recyclingresource depletion
Exhausting available materials gradually
aluminum recyclingindustrial pollution
Manufacturing waste harming environment
resource extraction · planned obsolescence · environmental degradation
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