Aluminium drinks cans are usually recycled at a special 'closed-loop' plant in Warrington, which makes ingots containing enough metal to make 1.5 million new cans. This is the ultimate recycling process for environmental efficiency and used cans are often recycled, made into new cans, filled and put back on the shelf in just six weeks.
Cans
Foil and other aluminium
Used foil is generally recycled with other aluminium scraps such as window frames and road signs, and cast into engine components for vehicles, which makes them lighter and more fuel efficient.
