Aluminum scrap
The aluminum scrap is one of our most popular services. Thousands of tons of this unique metal pass through our doors every year.
If you want to earn money by recycling your aluminum, or to know what is the price of aluminum scrap, call us.
The aluminum recycling is tremendously effective and beneficial to the environment. In fact, it is estimated that 90 million tons of CO2 are saved every year as a result of the reuse of aluminum.
It also requires a 95% less energy to recycle aluminum that to produce metal from scratch, which represents great savings and can have a significant impact on the broader environment.
Unlike other metals, aluminum is not wearing in its useful life . This means that can be continuously recycled , potentially infinite. About 75 percent of the one billion tons of aluminum produced in history is still used in the world, and much of it has been recycled many times.
even something as small as a recycled drink can generate the following:
- Enough energy to run a TV for up to three hours.
- Avoid equivalent to a 1 mile car trip in CO2 emissions.
- You can return to the shelf of a supermarket, ready to use, within 60 days after the recycling date.
About aluminum recycling
The process aluminum recycling is quite simple , and it is as follows:
cans or cans are collected and taken to a treatment plant. Here, they are classified and cleaned. Then, the can merges in molten aluminum, which eliminates coatings and inks.
This molten aluminum is placed in large blocks called links, each of which contains around 1.6 million drink cans!
Lagotes are sent to laminators, where they extend to give flexibility and resistance to aluminum. Then, this rolled aluminum becomes cans, prepared meal packaging, chocolate wrappers and a large number of other products.
