The diagram illustrates the reprocessing of aluminium cans. Overall, the process is cyclic, mainly automated and includes 6 stages, during which metal cans undergo
mechanical and temperature treatment to be turned into a recycled end product. Also, there is mentioned that approximately 74% of cans are recycled in UK
The process commences when used cans thrown away by people are picked up . Afterwards, these collected cans are placed in a garbage truck before being transported to the recycling center.
As for recycling and producing new products, the first stage is to clean collected cans, which then undergo several stages such as sorting, shredding and compressing by specialized machine. Once this stage is complete, cleaned and crushed cans are sent to an aluminum melting furnace, where they are heated and melted in order to form raw material which is used to manufacture the end product. After that, the cycle can be repeated .
