Aluminium

Aluminium – tidbits

• Poland annually consumes several billion aluminum cans, which can be recycled and used many times. Six cans from the scrap means the energy saving equal to the combustion of one liter of fuel.
• The production of aluminum from cans is about 60 percent cheaper than obtaining it from ore.
• The production of 1 kg of aluminum needs as much energy, as to produce 20 kg of bread.
• 600 aluminum cans can do a bike, and 3 aluminum cans can be used for making eyeglasses rims.
  Recycling of aluminum increases the raw material independence in the country, creates additional jobs in the purchase and processing, and generates additional income.
• Japan sells cans with liquefied fresh air at the temperature of 190 degrees of Celsius.
• First beverage cans (used for a long time) had a lid, which upon opening the can, was a small separate metal plate with a circle and littered the environment quite massively. When it turned out that it kills fish, which swallowed the plate, thinking that it was a little fish, the can structure was changed to the one we know now – the lid stays after opening a can.
• Each 6 tons of ore give only 1 ton of aluminum.
• Aluminum decomposes slowly (up to 100 years), since it is less susceptible to corrosion that other metals.
• If each Pole throws only one can of beer or beverage per day, then over the year there is created a mountain of waste with the volume of 90 thousand m3 – it is the volume of 10 average school buildings