Aluminum is one of the most recycled materials used today. But while aluminum cans are easy to throw in the curbside bin, aluminum foil can be a bit more challenging to recycle. It depends on how ...

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You've eaten your takeout burrito and have a ball of sour cream-specked aluminum foil left over. Does it go in the blue bin or the trash? Reading time 5 minutes Aluminum cans are the quintessential ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

According to researchers at Queen's University Belfast, around 20,000 metric tons of aluminum foil is tossed away in the UK each year – enough to stretch to the Moon and back. This prompted chemistry ...

What’s not to love about recycling? it makes people feel good, it keeps waste out of landfill, it is a virtuous cycle. Aluminum recycling is a particularly feel-good success story, with sixty percent ...

Pioneering technologies are maximising the potential of this durable and extensively usable - and reusable - material.