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1. The public take their aluminium drink cans to be recycled in exchange for cash.
2. The recycling centres sort the cans, bale them and transport them to an aluminium can recycling factory.
3. The bales are shredded and the paint is removed.
The shreds are melted down into ingots each weighing 26 tonnes.
4. The ingots are taken to a factory where they are rolled into coils of thin aluminium sheet only 0.3 mm thick.
5. The coils are transported to can makers who make the coils of sheet into new aluminium drink cans. The can maker sends the new cans to the drink
companies who fill them with different drinks and then place them on shop shelves for customers to buy. This closes the "recycling loop".
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