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Making Aluminium: Recycle or Raw Materials?

The document discusses aluminum (aluminium) recycling and the benefits of recycling over extracting aluminum from raw materials. It notes that recycling aluminum uses only 5% of the energy required to produce aluminum from raw materials. Recycling also saves waste and natural resources. The document encourages recycling aluminum cans through school cash for cans programs, noting that recycling 13 million aluminum cans per day in the UK generates money for schools while helping the environment.

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Making Aluminium: Recycle or Raw Materials?

The document discusses aluminum (aluminium) recycling and the benefits of recycling over extracting aluminum from raw materials. It notes that recycling aluminum uses only 5% of the energy required to produce aluminum from raw materials. Recycling also saves waste and natural resources. The document encourages recycling aluminum cans through school cash for cans programs, noting that recycling 13 million aluminum cans per day in the UK generates money for schools while helping the environment.

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Making

aluminium
Recycle or raw materials?
Aluminium
• Earth’s third most
common element.

• Found in the mineral We use


about 13
bauxite. million
drink cans
each day in
the UK.
Properties of aluminium
• Element discovered
in 1807.

• Lightweight but
strong.

• Easily cast and


moulded into many
applications. Sheet aluminium in a large coil, ready for making into
cans.
Uses of aluminium
• Light-weight material for
trains, planes, bikes and
cars.

• Medicines and toiletries.


E.g. antacid tablets and
antiperspirants.

• Packages and foils.

• Building and construction.


Where does aluminium
come from?

Aluminium from the raw material Bauxite


Recycled aluminium
Recycle or raw materials?
Aluminium from
recycled cans.
Uses only 5% of the
energy.
Saves waste and
natural resources.

Aluminium from
raw materials
Recycling aluminium
Aluminium cans
• 13 million used a day
in the UK

• Can be recycled
without loss of quality.

• Recycling saves
energy and natural
resources. Reduces
waste.
Cash for Cans
Empty cans
collected

Local collection
centre

Aluminium
ingots made.
Used to
manufacture
more cans Aluminium remelted
in furnace
Cash for Cans
• Generate money for your school

• Help to recycle a valuable resource

• Save energy and reduce waste


www.novelisrecycling.co.uk
www.thinkcans.com
Watch the loop video.
• Complete the worksheet.
• Check the cans – are they aluminium or
not.
• Work out how much energy we could save
as a school by recycling.
• Work out how much money we could save
as a school by recycling.
Facts
• The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium
drink can is enough to run a television for three
hours
• Every minute of every day, an average of
113,200 aluminium cans are recycled.
• The average household uses 3.2kg of aluminium
cans a year - that's about 208 cans
• If all the aluminium drinks cans recycled in the
UK last year were laid end to end, they would
stretch from John O'Groats to Land's End 140
times.

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