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Recycling steel at home is easy. To check if a can is made from steel just hold a magnet up to it – if it sticks, it's steel! As well as cans, you can
recycle bottle tops and jam jar lids in one of the two following ways:
1. Can Banks
 Can banks are large containers in which you can deposit
all your old steel cans for recycling. Once full, the can banks are emptied into local depots and then taken away by lorry to be sorted and then recycled.
Can banks are in public places, usually in central areas of towns and cities. They are also placed in some supermarket carparks, and at mini
recycling centres and civic amenity sites.
Many can banks across the UK are part of the Save-a-Can scheme. Save-a-Can is a nationwide can collection scheme which accepts all
types of food, drinks, pet food and aerosol cans.
There are over 2000 of the blue and white Save-a-Can banks across the UK, as well as some smaller mobile banks.  |
