Then, they go to an aluminum manufacturing plant, where they are shredded, remelted and solidified again. In India, the cans are collected from garbage dumps and sent to small private companies, where ...

From its status as the symbol of roadside trash in the 1970s, the humble aluminum can has risen to become the single most valuable commodity in the national recycling stream. While aluminum cans ...

Trash cans are typically made with durable materials that are full of reuse potential -- to cite two examples, galvanized ...