Recycling

of
Aluminium
Cans 
 
Aluminium is a soft, durable and lightweight metal, made from Bauxite ore, which is
mined from the earth. Bauxite is turned into alumina, a fine white powder, which is then
melted at over 700°C to become aluminium, which is one of the versatile products
universally being used by consumers in a number of applications. The process is
expensive and uses huge resources, including energy and machinery . Making cans out of
aluminium for storing soft drinks and juices is one of the commonly used phenomenons
as it takes five tonnes of Bauxite to make just one tonne of aluminium cans. 
 
Many of the food and drink products we buy are stored in cans made from lots of
aluminium or steel and both of these materials can be easily recycled after we have
finished with them to make either new cans or other allied apt products. 
 
Aluminium cans are very common in our daily life and is often consumed as drink
containers and later become as garbage in bins or being throw on streets and open
establishments. The good thing is that these cans are source of food and income to many
poor people who search and collect them from the bins and open areas and sell it to the
middle recycling shops in exchange of money. This practice is certainly restricting huge
quantities of cans going to endangered   ____________ sites saving valuable space and is
prompting informal recyclable material collection. 
 
The aluminium can is the world's most recycled packaging container. We need to
understand that all aluminium cans are 100% recyclable. It can take ——-to 500 years for
aluminium cans to decompose. Aluminium does not degrade during the recycling
process, which means it can be repeatedly recycled many a times. Recycling aluminium
saves millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases, energy, electricity and fuel for its
transportation. Making aluminium cans from recycled materials requires less than 5% of
the energy used to make new aluminium cans from Bauxite. 
 
 
1. Listening exercise A 
Answer the following questions. 
  
 1. Where do dustmen take our rubbish?
They are dumb in huge landfill sites and eventually covered by soil, in which crops start
growing, and rubbish start to decomposed.
2. Why can’t the rubbish sites be used to grow crops or be used to build houses?
Many poisoned gases and liquids flow, because of the decomposition of rubbish which
makes not a strong enough land.
3. What happens to the rubbish that is not left at the rubbish sites?
That rubbish is burn and incinerates, but these release poison gasses.
4. Why should we recycle?
By recycling materials, that makes production more economic, requires less energy, less
amount of land of waste and minimize de amount of produced pollution.
5.Can steel be recycle?
Yes and these is one of the most recycle
6. What chemical is used to make new paper?
For making paper, which comes for trees it goes through a sulfite? process that pollutes
rivers.
7. Other than newspapers ,what other paper things can we recycle?
Magazine, paper bags, cardboard, and envelopes
8. What are the disadvantages of not recycling glass?
It last forever, broken and buried.
2. Listening exercise B: 
https://www.onlinelanguageacademy.com/en/blog/english-listening-exercise-
recycling.htm 
 1. It's just one bottle. It's not the end of the world if I don't recycle it.
2. ...as much as 12% of all U.S.wastes is plastic products.

3. A far more energy and cost efficient process than making a new bottle from raw
materials.
4. ..because it's not biodegradable it will sit there forever, taking up space..

5. "The average American uses about 167 bottles of water each year."

6. And of those 167 bottles, that average American only recycles 38 bottles.

7. It's great to be able to grab a bottle when you're rushing through an airport and
dehydrated.

8. And we can keep that trend going.

9. It's a really small thing to do, but the impact is significant.

10. So how often do you guys carry around old bottles until you find a place to recycle
them?