How Are Aluminium Cans Recycled? | How Do They Do It?

The world consumes a mind blowing 4 billion cans of soft drinks made of recycled aluminium every week. DCODE how they are recycled.

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[gutz]

Does it not shock anyone, that back in the 1980s, kids could recycle coke cans for 5 cents a can, and now, 40 years later, its STILL only 5 cents a can? Back in the 80s, I could collect 10 cans and go to the local swimming pool for a day. Now you tell me how come inflation has not caught up to recycling like it has everything else? 50 Cents won't get you candy anymore, let alone a day at a swimming pool.

[Leopard]

My old coke can had done more things in a year then i have done in my life.

[bradl]

I am in awe of just how big some of those machines are. Amazing.

[LiquidSoapDrinker]

My can is already in space.. * sniff * They grow up so fast 😢

[AbbaZabbaOlyFrn]

*sees aluminium rocket shooting into space*
"Godspeed, beer cans!"

[jerryhilditch]

I live less than half a mile from the recycling plant and wondered how they did it.
It's quite common to see 4 trucks a day with an ingot pass my house, that's a lot of cans.

[CannedHam]

Finally, an informative video without hyped up drama or annoying music. Thank you!

[gargantuanblunt]

1:54 When you’re using a much more powerful microwave than you’re used to and you finally go to check on your food.

[chefdecuisine]

americans: "aluminum"
britishers:""alu-min-ium"
me, an itellectual:"diet metal"

[gabesnooks]

Anyone remember when this is the kind of thing often played on Discovery channel rather than all the reality tv crap now?

[Dr_Do-Little]

England. Where a double decker bus is a unit of measure.😜

[HatedJared]

Back when I was a broke high schooler in Michigan, we would find cans and return them so we could put $5 worth of gas into our junk cars. The freedom was real.

[NieroshaiTheSable]

3:18 if that's an ingot, my shovel is a teaspoon.

[NandiCollector]

These recycling videos are so educative & enjoyable to watch!

[Vector_Ze]

Old timers like me can remember when beverage cans were in transition to the all aluminum cans we have today. A half-century ago, PSAs for aluminum can recycling had to specify the desired cans had a concave bottom and no side seam, which was composed of ferrous metal.

[Jadxn]

This is giving me toy story 3 flash backs..

[spencerhurt]

1:54 the way this guy says “they’re instantly vaporized” like he’s making a sales pitch😂

[michaelboyd]

Cans and bottles and basic "town" crap ended up along the county road which split my Iowa farm. One nice autumn day in 1977, having consumed too much (actually, as it turned out, it was the right amount) cold beer with a couple of neighboring farmers, I began to rant about all the crap along my land frontage. One farmer jokingly suggested that I call my congressman. Everyone laughed but me. So, I grab my phone, call information to find out my congressman's number, and actually him to give him Hell. I suggested at least a 5-cent charge like the old "pop" bottles back in the day. What happens next? Iowa begins to charge a nickel per bottle or can. The pragmatic, no change, no progressive Conservatives blew a head gasket. But, the law prevailed. Recycling came into being in Iowa just because some half-drunk Iowa farmers called a congressman (Well, actually I called). So, sue me.

[many_lives]

2:13 lol with that music its like they're unveiling the final boss of aluminum can recycling.

[jamesdavies]

I’m sitting in the middle of a night shift at Novelis, thoroughly convinced that my phone heard my work conversations and suggested this