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aluminium, today is a familiar and common metal, yet unlike other familiar metals such as iron, bronze and copper, it has only been possible to make aluminium since the early to middle part of the 19th century. Aluminium has only been used for drink cans for about 20 years.

aluminium cans that have been collected for recycling are first sorted and then baled into bricks. The bricks are transported to processing plants where they are fed into rotary furnaces and the aluminium heated to about 7000c.

the molten aluminium is then cast into ingots that are sent to rolling mills where they are remade into new cans. In some cases, the recycled cans are reprocessed into other aluminium products.