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Aluminum Cans

Aluminum Cans. Ms. Scribner 1 st Hour. History. Originated in Napoleon’s time around the 1800’s Didn’t make its debut until 1965. http://earth911.com. Process of Recycling. http://cans.planetark.org. Material Recycling Facility. This process is used to sort

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Aluminum Cans

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  1. Aluminum Cans Ms. Scribner 1st Hour

  2. History • Originated in Napoleon’s time around the 1800’s • Didn’t make its debut until 1965 http://earth911.com

  3. Process of Recycling http://cans.planetark.org

  4. 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. http://cans.planetark.org www.milton-keynes.gov.uk

  5. www.milton-keynes.gov.uk

  6. 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.  www.milton-keynes.gov.uk http://cans.planetark.org

  7. 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 http://cans.planetark.org

  8. Can Making Facilities • Where the sheets of aluminum are shipped to make new cans http://sine.ni.com http://cans.planetark.org

  9. 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.

  10. Opportunities • 119,482 cans are recycled every minute nationwide • U.S. Environmental Protection • Waste Resource Conservation Challenge • http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/rcc/resources/msw.htm

  11. 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

  12. 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 http://i.treehugger.com

  13. Reasons • The 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.

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