As long as the "fish" is hungry, we will have a polluted environment
Now, what’s more refreshing than having a cold drink in a hot summer day? People buy a lot of drink cans per year and they just happen to throw them away recklessly. But what most people don’t know is that each one can be recycled back into metal to make ‘new’ drink cans, over and over again.
Most drink cans are made from aluminium and the good thing about aluminium- it is 100 per cent recyclable. To make this metal out of raw materials is a complex process, it takes time and a lot of energy. Aluminium can be recycled time and time again without quality loss, and having such a habit is the best thing we can do for our environment.
The recycling process takes around 6 weeks thus aluminium cans are able to be reborn 8 times per year. First, the cans are collected and taken to a treatment plant where they are divided in metal types using magnets. Aluminium cans are shredded into small pieces which are formed into blocks. The blocks are put in a furnace and heated to over 750 degrees Celsius, also chemicals are added to improve the quality of the melted metal. After that it is poured into a mould to form big slabs which are rolled into coils. These coils are used to make new aluminium cans.
Around 75 % of all the aluminium ever made is still in circulation and it is the most cost-effective material to recycle.
Recycling 1kg of aluminium saves up to:
-6kg of bauxite
-4kg of chemical products
-14kWh of electricity
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