Food and drink cans

• Empty aluminium drink cans are sent overseas for recycling and can
  be recycled again and again. Recycled aluminium cans are sorted, crushed
  and baled into "bricks" for transporting. These bricks are fed into
  a hot furnace where the aluminium melts and the melted aluminium is
  then cast into smaller ingots which are processed into new aluminium
  cans.
  
  
• Steel cans that have contained anything from baked beans to fruit
  cocktail, pet food or soup can be recycled to make new cars and bridges.