How aluminium cans are made?

Aluminium is a silvery-white lightweight metal. It is soft

and malleable. Aluminium cans are made from giant
rolls of aluminium sheeting. One roll can make up to
750,000 cans. The thin sheet of metal is pressed into
round pieces, these pieces are formed into cups. The
cans then have to be washed, dried, coated with varnish
and printed. The printing machine processes up to 1,800
cans per minute. Finally, the cans are shaped at the top
and run through a vision system that photographs each
one to ensure quality. Any cans that don’t meet
standards are sent back to be recycled. The rest of the
cans are packaged and sent to beverage companies to be
filled and capped.

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Importance of disposing aluminium cans.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In the Hall process, current passes through graphite electrodes
submerged in molten alumina, or Al2O3. The carbon in the graphite
electrodes reacts with the oxygen in the molten alumina to yield
carbon dioxide. Although pure aluminium is isolated in the process,
the amount of carbon dioxide released is considerable more than 1
ton of carbon dioxide for every ton of aluminium produced.

Reducing Waste & Mining Impacts

The more aluminium recycled, the less manufacturers need to
produce. Production of aluminium necessitates extraction of bauxite
ore, and mining also has environmental impacts. Typical bauxite is
strip-mined, meaning the soil atop the deposit is removed; in the
process, the vegetation at the site is destroyed.

Economic Value of Recycled Aluminium

Recycled aluminium is a valuable commodity, so most recycling
centres will accept your used cans. Moreover, aluminium can be
recycled indefinitely with no limit on the number of times the metal
can be reused.

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