The chart demonstates how to recycle aluminium drinks cans. Overall, there are eleven stages, lasting 6 weeks, starting with trasporting waste to recycling plant, followed by crushing it into small pieces, and ending with producing new cans.
The first four stages involve the transformation of initial shape of cans. Firstly, used aluminium cans are delivered by trucks and then deposited in a recycling factory. After being watered to eliminate unwanted substains, drinks cans are crushed into small pieces, ready for the next stage.
The remaining stages aim at producing new cans. The process continuing with erasing crushed cans with chemicals. After that, they are heated in high temperature, and then shaped in a mould to ensure they are a uniform size. The ninth stage is checking moulded cans’s weights ensuring the right weights, followed by conveying them into rolling machines. Finally, the new cans are produced, ready for use again