The picture illustrates this cycle in a clear and engaging way. A cyclical process of recycling aluminium cans in the UK.
Overall, the repetition starts when trucks collect the used cans, then cleaning, heating and melting, rolling, recycling, and reusing using them with the mechanical equipments. It is a closed loop that significantly contributes to the environmental stabilty.
In the first step, the amounts of used cans from households are collected and moved to the factory, where the cans are cleaned, sorted, shredded, and compressed into the manageable blocks. By using specific devices for different significant phases. After that, they are thrown into the heat machine to heat and melt them until they turn from solid to liquid at high temperatures.
Following this stage, they need to roll it about 2-5mm or 6mm thick to ensure they can create them in many kinds of shapes, for example: cylinder, and prismatic shape. These sheets are used to manufacture new aluminium cans, 74% of which are reused in the UK, continuing the recycling loop.