The given picture illustrates the stages of recycling aluminium cans. It is clear that seven steps are there in the process.
Overall, it can be seen that recycling aluminium cans is a long process involving many steps.
In the first step, we had to store the used cans in a bin where we could only store the aluminium cans. In the second step, the cans are collected from the bins to the recycling factory by using the transportation vehicle. The next four steps are inside the factory and are long processes compared to initiatal storing and collection. They are cleaning and sorting, heating and melting, rolling and recycling.
The initial stage inside the factory that is the third step includes some basic cleaning, sorting shedding and compression. In this stage, the used cans are separated and cleaned properly and then subjected to compression for the convenient use of upcoming steps. In the heating and melting process, the compressed materials are subjected to heat and melt to a molten state. The fifth process is the rolling stage, where the molten materials are converted to a rolled format. The thickness of the roll is 2.5mm to 6mm. In the next process, the rolled aluminium is converted to recycled cans, that is the recycling process. The final stage is the reusing stage, where 74% of recycling is done by the UK.