Why to Recycle Aluminium?

Aluminium is the most commonly found metal. Right from your soda cans, alcoholic beverages, foil packs, pie tins to sidings, building gutters and so many more items are made from this material. Generally, all these things are disposed off into a trash when their purpose is served. However, if you make an effort to recycle aluminium, it proves to be highly beneficial in many ways.

-Recycling aluminium is an energy saving process. It saves up on a lot of energy when you recycle aluminium as compared to when it is freshly extracted.

- There is no emission of greenhouse gases when aluminium is recycled.

- Aluminium is a metal which can be recycled endlessly.

-  It does not lose its originality no matter how many times it is recycled.

-  Recycling aluminium is highly effective and also quick. Within a few minutes time, recycling companies produce a large number of aluminium cans.

-  This metal is highly valuable and has a great demand in the market. When recycled, the prices of this metal do not really shoot up by huge margins and this helps to maintain the prices in a stable range.

- Also, it is economically sound for any business as recycling helps to diminish or eliminate the need for raw materials. It is highly profitable for any business to recycle the products and resell them.

- The capital required to produce fresh products is way higher than that needed for producing goods from recycled materials.

These are just a few reasons why you should consider aluminium recycling. It is not only beneficial to the businesses that are involved in this activity, but also is monetarily profitable to people who sell their scrap aluminium metal.

How to Start Recycling At Home

There are so many things which you do not need or are not in use for a long time. Instead of simply throwing these things in the dumpster, you can reuse them even more efficiently.  “Charity begins at home”, they say. Well, in this case, you aren’t doing a charity as such, but you are definitely helping the world to be a better place to live in. So, how do you go about it?

Look around in your house and see which are the items that you think is clutter, and you are thinking of disposing? You will find a lot of things in the kitchen which are can be used again. All your kitchen leftovers, food scraps and yard trimmings can be turned into good compost and can be used as a great fertilizer for your plants.

Do not throw away newspapers in the trash. Stack them separately as they can be sent for newsprint recycling directly. And not just the newspapers, you can store magazines, booklets, pamphlets, envelopes, old letters and other such paper materials together. Corrugated cardboard is also another material which is highly valued when it comes to recycling.

Apart from these things, you can collect things like aluminium cans, plastic bottles and tins which are recyclable. You can make things easier for the recycling company by flattening these cans. However, if that is not possible the least you can do is to clean them and hand them over hygienically for recycling.


You can contact your nearest recycling centre and ask them to collect things from your place, or you can yourself drop them off to these places. Thus, these are a few things which can help you to do your bit towards the society and the environment.