Everything You Think You Know About Recycling Aluminum Cans Is Probably Wrong
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From crushed cans to paper labels, the most common metal recycling habits are often the wrong ones.
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Most people approach aluminum recycling with the best of intentions and a surprisingly large number of misconceptions. The crushed can feels virtuous -- more efficient, taking up less space, easier on the bin. In reality, it can cause problems at the sorting facility.
And the instinct to peel off paper labels before recycling a tin can? Also probably unnecessary. The practice of metal recycling comes with handful of deeply embedded habits that are more myth than best practice, and knowing which is which is the first step to actually doing it right.
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