Confirm that the body is aluminium. Steel cans and other packaging need a different material route; contents, inks and coatings are not included.
06 · COLLECTION & RECOVERY
The next life is local.
Keep a useful object in service through reuse or repair where appropriate. For end of life, identify the whole item and its local collection programme; material composition alone does not establish acceptance or a destination facility.
Aluminium
Beverage cans often have a collection or deposit route. Other aluminium objects may require a scrap-metal service.
DOCUMENTED INDUSTRY EXAMPLE
Used cans to ingot to new sheet
Novelis describes can collection, Warrington remelting, onward rolling and can manufacture. The receiving rolling mill and can maker are not named.
Used aluminium beverage cans. Expansion targets are separate from achieved output; other aluminium objects need their own collection route.2 sources behind this section
