Anything made of aluminium can be recycled repeatedly not only cans, but plates and pie moulds, window frames, garden furniture and automotive components are melted down and used to make new products.

The recycling of aluminium requires only 5% of the energy to produce recycled metal as compared to primary metal and generates only 5% of the green house gas emissions.

Scrap aluminium therefore has significant value and commands good market prices. So much so that, aluminium companies have invested in dedicated state of the art processing plants to recycle aluminium. In the case of beverage cans, the process uses gas collected from burning off the coating to preheat the material prior to processing.

By recycling aluminium products we:

• eliminate waste
• save energy
• conserve natural resources
• reduce the use of city landfills
• provide added revenue for recyclers, charities and local town government.

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