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Recycling aluminum cans is one of the most valuable beverage containers to recycle and it is the most recycled consumer product in the United States today. Recycling aluminum cans provides environmental,economic,and community and community benefits to communities across the nation. The impact of the can on culture and economics for more than 200 years.

Aluminum Environmental Benefits

Recycling aluminum cans saves precious natural resources, energy, time and money-all for a good cause helping out the earth, as well as the economy and local communities aluminum cans are unique. I n 60 days a can is recycled, turned into a new can and back on store shelves. Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again. I n 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled , saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil Americas entire gas consumption for one day.

How is aluminum cans recycled?

1) Two out of every three cans produced in the United States begin the recycling process ether at local recycling canters community drop off sites, charity connection sites, reverse vending machines or curbside pick-up spots.
2) Aluminum cans from there sources are then gathered at large, regional scrap processing companies. There, they condense the cans into highly dense, 30-pound briquettes of 1,200 pound bales and ship them off to aluminum companies for melting.
3) At the aluminum companies, the condensed cans are shredded, crushed and stripped of there inside and outside decorations via a burning process. T hen, the potato chip-sized pieces of aluminum is loaded into melting furnaces, where the recycled metal is blended with new, virgin aluminum.
4) The molten aluminum is then poured into 25-foot long ingots that weigh over 30,000 pounds. The ingots are fed into rolling mills that reduce the thickness of the metal from 20-plus inches to sheet that is about 1011,000 of an inch thick.
5) This metal is then coiled and shipped to can makers, who produce can bodies (the side of a can is the same thickness as a human hair!) and lids. They, in turn, deliver cans to beverage companies for filling.
6) The new cans (stocked with your favorite canned beverages, of course) are then ready to return to store shelves in as little as 60-days, only to go through the entire recycling process again!

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