What can recycle

What can recycle

Here are some example what can you recycle:

ALUMINUM CANS

Since the cans are 100% recyclable, we could drastically reduce the energy needed to produce brand new cans simply by recycling our empties. An aluminum can is able to be returned to the shelf, as a new can, as quickly as 60 days after it's put into your recycling container. Coast-to-coast, there are about 10,000 locations that buy aluminum, making it easy to redeem their used beverage cans for cash. In fact, recycling aluminum cans is a $1 billion/year industry in this country.

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.

A Day in the Life of a Recycled Can

1.      Customer takes can to a recycling center or puts it into a recycling bin.
2.      The can is transported to a processing facility.
3.      A giant magnet lifts out cans that are made of metals such steel. Since aluminum cans aren't magnetic, they drop down to a conveyor belt and are gathered.
4.      The aluminum is shredded, washed and turned into aluminum chips.
5.      The chips are melted in a large furnace.
6.      The melted aluminum is poured into molds called "ingots."
7.      The ingots are taken to a factory where they're melted into rolls of thin, flat sheets.
8.      From the sheets, manufacturers make new products, including new beverage cans, pie pans, license plate frames, and aluminum foil.
9.      Beverage companies fill the cans and deliver them to grocery stores for customers to purchase.
10.  Customers take used cans to a recycling center and the process starts all over again.
 

STEEL CANS AND TIN CANS

Most people call them "tin cans," but the containers your green beans come in are mostly made of steel. The term "tin" comes from the fact that these cans have a micro-thin coating of tin inside, to protect the flavor and prevent the can from corroding. In addition, steel cans typically contain at least 25% recycled steel, but many are made almost entirely of recycled steel. Recycling steel saves at least 75% of the energy it would take to create steel from raw materials. That's enough energy to power 18 million homes.During the recycling process, steel cans (in bales or loose) are fed into the furnaces of a steel mill or foundry. They may be mixed with new steel. Some of the new "mini" steel mills manufacture their products from 100% recycled steel.