The diagram gives information of how aluminum cans were being recycled.
Overall, the recycling of aluminum cans undergoes a linear process with various 6 stages, from the collection of the materials to until to a reusable product.
In detail, the first process is to collect the rubbish can from the designated trash bin. Following, this will be cleaned, sorted, shredded, and compressed by a specific machine. Subsequently, the raw material will be heated in preparation for the next step.
Moreover, after hearing this will be passed to a rolling device in order to thin the product in a particular thickness around 2.5 mm to 6mm. Moreover, the finished product will be sent to various companies in order to be recycled and used for their different canned products. Finally, corporations might sell their goods which they already use the recycled cans to store the product for human consumption. In the data, 74% of cans in the UK were recycled mostly in stores.
