You can purchase plain aluminum cans from online retailers, local packaging supply stores, or directly from manufacturers. Some recycling centers and scrap yards may also sell plain aluminum cans.
Some are some aren't. If they are made of steel as some juice cans and a few other beverage cans are they will be. If they are made of aluminum as almost all beverage cans are they will not be.
The price of a pound of aluminum cans in Arizona can vary depending on market conditions, but it is typically around $0.40 to $0.50 per pound. Recycling centers and scrap yards may offer different rates, so it's best to contact them for the most up-to-date pricing.
No, aluminum soda cans will sink in water because aluminum is denser than water. The air trapped inside a closed soda can may cause it to briefly float, but it will eventually sink.
Unlikely. Aluminium cans are surface coated both inside and out, so not a lot is getting out. You'd need to be int he presence of something that causes aluminum (or handling recently machined aluminum) dust to get that.
People may melt aluminum cans to recycle the aluminum and turn them into new products. Melting aluminum requires less energy compared to extracting it from raw materials, making it an efficient way to reuse aluminum. Additionally, recycling aluminum reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and helps conserve natural resources.
Aluminum can be recycled forever, but not necessarily in the same form. Cans may be melted down to make aluminum ingots to be used in the manufacture of new products (which may just be more cans).Infinitely! Infinitely! Infinitely!
Cans made of aluminum or steel do not decay in the same way that organic materials do. However, aluminum cans can corrode over time when exposed to certain conditions such as moisture, leading to the breakdown of the material. Proper recycling and disposal of cans can prevent any potential environmental impact.
44 cents a pound for aluminum cans. if you are a scrapper collecting siding and such, then i think its only 40 cents or 41 cents a pound. i think a case of beer is about a little less than a pound empty cans. just imagine how many empty cases of beer you need to drink to buy another one for 12 bucks prices may be different around places. i priced a few places in the Chicago area. Baltimore metal inc pays 75 cents a pound for aluminum cans elgin recycle 44 cents a pound south shore is 35 cents a pound. Average is 40 cents a pound Scrap aluminum pricing depends on how clean/prepared your aluminum scrap is as well as the grade of aluminum scrap metal. Some basic pricing as of June 2011 is Aluminum Cans $0.67/lb Aluminum Cans - Crushed $0.70/lb Painted Aluminum Siding $0.60/lb Extruded Aluminum $0.70/lb Sheet Aluminum $0.52/lb Always make sure that the scrap yard you are dealing with is paying close to Comex/LME Pricing.
Go ask at the stores. The price may vary from city to city.
It may seem surprising because aluminum is a lightweight metal, but it is actually strong and durable, making it a suitable material for drink cans. Aluminum is also easy to recycle, which is important for sustainability. Additionally, the material is cost-effective for manufacturing large quantities of cans.
My understanding is that ALUMINUM cans are melted down (and purified) and then (probably by adding to new aluminum ore) smelted into 'fresh' aluminum, that can be used for ANY process or manufacturing that uses aluminum...even potentially into brand new aluminum cans (or aluminum foil, etc.) Processing of Aluminum Ore (?bauxite?) uses HUGE amounts of electricity. I have seen aluminum referred to as "solid electricity" the process requires so much of it. At one point Aluminum was the most expensive metal in the world, even more than gold. That's one reason why the top of the Washington Monument in Washington DC is a block of solid aluminum...as it was so valuable. Remelting and recycling used aluminum is much more energy efficient than the processing of bauxite ore to obtain aluminum. Recycling not only keeps more materials out of landfills, it saves energy at the same tme! Steel cans (are there any steel cans any more?) would similarly be recycled by being added along with other steel scrap to blast furnaces smelting iron and steel. As with aluminum, it helps create 'new' steel for all sorts of manufacturing. The car you drive today may have been part of a WWI or WWII battleship, or maybe your dad's or grand-dad's old 57 Chevy. (Although, in the case of the 57 Chevy, it may have been worth more in that configuration than its worth after recycling!)