The diagram illustrates the various stages of the recycling process of aluminum containers.
Overall, it is evident that the process contains seven different stages, beginning with throwing used cans in the trash and ending with reusing the new containers.
Initially, individuals must gather their used bottles in the allocated trash bins which makes collecting them convenient by tracks. In the third stage, aluminum cans are transmitted to the factory to pass several processes, firstly the collecting bottles should be cleaned of any dirt, and then sorted for shredding all cans with specific machines, and finally with a compressing facility they are compacted. The compressing aluminum cans should melted by using the heating machine in the 4th stage.
Moreover, the melted aluminum is rolled by the thickness of 2.5 mm to 6 mm, and in the final process in the factory, it is converted to recycled containers. In the final step, they are labeled as reusing bottles with 74% reused materials (UK) and distributed to the market and consumers.