aluminum cans
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Aluminum CansMs. Scribner 1st 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
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
www.milton-keynes.gov.uk
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.
http://cans.planetark.org
www.milton-keynes.gov.uk
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
Can Making Facilities
Where the sheets of aluminum are shipped to make new cans
http://cans.planetark.org
http://sine.ni.com
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
U.S. Environmental ProtectionWaste Resource Conservation
Challengehttp://www.epa.gov/epawaste/
rcc/resources/msw.htm
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
http://i.treehugger.com
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.