How Are Aluminium Cans Recycled? | How Do They Do It?

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DCODE by Discovery

DCODE by Discovery

5 жыл бұрын

The world consumes a mind blowing 4 billion cans of soft drinks made of recycled aluminium every week. DCODE how they are recycled.
#DCODE, #HowDoTheyDoIt, #AluminiumCans

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@gargantuanblunt
@gargantuanblunt 5 жыл бұрын
1:54 When you’re using a much more powerful microwave than you’re used to and you finally go to check on your food.
@lensofeli1762
@lensofeli1762 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@DaCoopy
@DaCoopy 7 күн бұрын
Heh
@AbbaZabbaOlyFrn
@AbbaZabbaOlyFrn 4 жыл бұрын
*sees aluminium rocket shooting into space* "Godspeed, beer cans!"
@elcabezon5487
@elcabezon5487 4 жыл бұрын
They always try to push that bullshit to us rockets skin must be made of titanium, aluminium, would melt
@samovarmaker9673
@samovarmaker9673 4 жыл бұрын
@@elcabezon5487 Titanium is heavier, way more expensive and way harder to work with. Most rocket bodies do indeed use aluminum, although it is often alloyed with other metals such as Lithium as with the Falcon 9.
@meghanachauhan9380
@meghanachauhan9380 4 жыл бұрын
@@samovarmaker9673 titanium is a joke. We even use it in cosmetics as titanium dioxide
@samovarmaker9673
@samovarmaker9673 4 жыл бұрын
@@meghanachauhan9380 Titanium dioxide is a powder. Titanium metal is different.
@rhuttrho88
@rhuttrho88 4 жыл бұрын
UUURRP!🍻🥴😅🤣🤣🤣
@gutz1981
@gutz1981 2 жыл бұрын
Does it not shock anyone, that back in the 1980s, kids could recycle coke cans for 5 cents a can, and now, 40 years later, its STILL only 5 cents a can? Back in the 80s, I could collect 10 cans and go to the local swimming pool for a day. Now you tell me how come inflation has not caught up to recycling like it has everything else? 50 Cents won't get you candy anymore, let alone a day at a swimming pool.
@bradl7499
@bradl7499 3 жыл бұрын
I am in awe of just how big some of those machines are. Amazing.
@lc4life369
@lc4life369 Жыл бұрын
I'm in awe at the fact that someone built those machines😂
@SteepHoodGG
@SteepHoodGG Жыл бұрын
I'm in awe at the fact that someone could conceive the schematics for those machines 😂
@jordanalexander615
@jordanalexander615 Жыл бұрын
You should see the ingot. The one I work at sometimes actually make the ingot using a water cooled shaper. And it goes 55 feet into the ground. It's a sight when they pull it out with a crane just holding it from the end. The ingots are molten inside for days.
@Leopard69
@Leopard69 5 жыл бұрын
My old coke can had done more things in a year then i have done in my life.
@shanecastillo7830
@shanecastillo7830 4 жыл бұрын
it`s true
@NandiCollector
@NandiCollector 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@vanshatresh3443
@vanshatresh3443 4 жыл бұрын
It's hilarious 😂
@zimos9286
@zimos9286 4 жыл бұрын
😂
@barca1061
@barca1061 4 жыл бұрын
Shane Castillo en dan
@GodOfPizza
@GodOfPizza 5 жыл бұрын
My can is already in space.. * sniff * They grow up so fast 😢
@forvdr5231
@forvdr5231 4 жыл бұрын
I have to tell you that's the funniest thing I've read all week.
@royt7562
@royt7562 4 жыл бұрын
Do you have any idea how funny this is?
@royt7562
@royt7562 4 жыл бұрын
@Billy Grahammer A lot of space.
@GodOfPizza
@GodOfPizza 4 жыл бұрын
@15guinea ?
@haroldsmith5150
@haroldsmith5150 4 жыл бұрын
@@godschild5587 lol ok Boomer
@chefdecuisine3080
@chefdecuisine3080 3 жыл бұрын
americans: "aluminum" britishers:""alu-min-ium" me, an itellectual:"diet metal"
@josephlalock8378
@josephlalock8378 3 жыл бұрын
It's pronounced Nucular
@davidwillard7334
@davidwillard7334 2 жыл бұрын
Me ! AN ABSOLUTE !! PILE !! OF !! ..............!!!!!
@ItsMotoMatt
@ItsMotoMatt 2 жыл бұрын
The Brits' pronunciation is the correct one
@alexc8253
@alexc8253 2 жыл бұрын
First learn how to spell Mr.itellectual
@MrJdsenior
@MrJdsenior 2 жыл бұрын
@@josephlalock8378 Correct, like in Shakespeare's king Lar. This particular mispronunciation drives me nuts, BTW. Especially when I hear New-Que-Lar engineers say it.
@jerryhilditch5991
@jerryhilditch5991 3 жыл бұрын
I live less than half a mile from the recycling plant and wondered how they did it. It's quite common to see 4 trucks a day with an ingot pass my house, that's a lot of cans.
@odufumarvelous9420
@odufumarvelous9420 6 ай бұрын
What's the name of the company. I'm into the business and I'll love to export bailed UBS to them
@CannedHam6
@CannedHam6 5 жыл бұрын
Finally, an informative video without hyped up drama or annoying music. Thank you!
@RileyBanksWho
@RileyBanksWho Жыл бұрын
The entire episode is filled to the brim with drama and music actually
@leptir7110
@leptir7110 Жыл бұрын
DA SE NE PROIZVODE LIMENKE I PLASTIKA NEBI BILO TOLIKO.SMEČA
@shoaibakther1453
@shoaibakther1453 Жыл бұрын
Yeah
@Dr_Do-Little
@Dr_Do-Little 5 жыл бұрын
England. Where a double decker bus is a unit of measure.😜
@SgtJoeSmith
@SgtJoeSmith 5 жыл бұрын
That the metric system. In USA we use football fields as comparisons for measuring
@bobmizen1
@bobmizen1 5 жыл бұрын
And Olympic sized swimming pool
@Dr_Do-Little
@Dr_Do-Little 5 жыл бұрын
@@SgtJoeSmith Which will be 110 yards by 65 right? Or 150 yards including end zones? Just kidding, I'm Canadian. 😜
@SgtJoeSmith
@SgtJoeSmith 5 жыл бұрын
@@Dr_Do-Little Canadian? I'm surprised you know what football is. I thought curling was your only sport. Lol
@havocproltd
@havocproltd 5 жыл бұрын
@@bobmizen1 DUDE!!! I was going to mention how Grant Imahara used "olympic sized swimming ppols" as a measure of DISTANCE on pumpkin chuckin'!! ( I now use it as a measure of intelligences, " I am olympic sized swimming pools smarter than anybody who works in the mcdonalds"!
@Vector_Ze
@Vector_Ze 2 жыл бұрын
Old timers like me can remember when beverage cans were in transition to the all aluminum cans we have today. A half-century ago, PSAs for aluminum can recycling had to specify the desired cans had a concave bottom and no side seam, which was composed of ferrous metal.
@HatedJared
@HatedJared 3 жыл бұрын
Back when I was a broke high schooler in Michigan, we would find cans and return them so we could put $5 worth of gas into our junk cars. The freedom was real.
@the_kombinator
@the_kombinator 2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah I remember when five of us would pitch in a toonie each and we'd have enough gas to get to Wonderland and back. At 70 cents a litre, I got almost half a tank in my 87 Escort.
@TheAmericanCatholic
@TheAmericanCatholic Жыл бұрын
Michigan’s bottle return is 10 cents per bottle it’s ridiculous but everybody recycles them because of that price.
@NieroshaiTheSable
@NieroshaiTheSable 5 жыл бұрын
3:18 if that's an ingot, my shovel is a teaspoon.
@touxiong519
@touxiong519 5 жыл бұрын
Ingots is just a term used for a bar of smelted metal.
@whitebread427
@whitebread427 5 жыл бұрын
No it's not
@Jrez
@Jrez 5 жыл бұрын
Yes it is.
@NieroshaiTheSable
@NieroshaiTheSable 5 жыл бұрын
@@touxiong519 How big can something be and still be a bar? And not a slab?
@uploaded113redone
@uploaded113redone 5 жыл бұрын
@@NieroshaiTheSable the biggest ingot is 300 tonnes , so they don't care as long as it's a pure metal in an oblong shape
@spencerhurt2189
@spencerhurt2189 5 жыл бұрын
1:54 the way this guy says “they’re instantly vaporized” like he’s making a sales pitch😂
@ajreukgjdi94
@ajreukgjdi94 5 жыл бұрын
I also paused the video at this point, but I was more trying to figure out what caused it to vaporize, they're not in the foundry yet. It's like a sentence or two just got cut from the script and no one noticed
@MetaBloxer
@MetaBloxer 5 жыл бұрын
*saves this clip for TF2 pyro gameplay*
@tobiramasenju7669
@tobiramasenju7669 3 жыл бұрын
British: Alyuminium Americans: Aluminum Life of Boris: Aluminuminun
@dannyrichards6233
@dannyrichards6233 3 жыл бұрын
Thx 4 sharing.
@jadxn3317
@jadxn3317 4 жыл бұрын
This is giving me toy story 3 flash backs..
@heizemari2664
@heizemari2664 3 жыл бұрын
Samee hahahaha😂😂
@SaadNabil
@SaadNabil 3 жыл бұрын
Now you're talking!
@anthonygifford9494
@anthonygifford9494 3 жыл бұрын
The cccclllllaaaaawwww
@wisata7609
@wisata7609 3 жыл бұрын
U mean 2?
@rightleft148
@rightleft148 3 жыл бұрын
I saw monster's inc
@many_lives4925
@many_lives4925 5 жыл бұрын
2:13 lol with that music its like they're unveiling the final boss of aluminum can recycling.
@miker8915
@miker8915 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks for sharing
@jl3390
@jl3390 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I always wondered how they did that! 🙂
@gabesnooks3549
@gabesnooks3549 5 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember when this is the kind of thing often played on Discovery channel rather than all the reality tv crap now?
@snoopy_peanuts_77
@snoopy_peanuts_77 Жыл бұрын
they were bought out by a billionaire with his own agenda
@abbiravindhran8424
@abbiravindhran8424 Жыл бұрын
yeah ikr!
@jamesdavies3226
@jamesdavies3226 4 жыл бұрын
I’m sitting in the middle of a night shift at Novelis, thoroughly convinced that my phone heard my work conversations and suggested this
@djhaloeight
@djhaloeight 3 жыл бұрын
I’m on my night shift sitting in my pulpit running my tandem cold mill at jupiter wondering the same.
@joeking5610
@joeking5610 3 жыл бұрын
Im inseminating cattle right now. Best to turn phone off!
@51-FS
@51-FS 3 жыл бұрын
Yea thats crazy how that works.... I told a joke about how to get a 🐕 to quit humping you leg at work the other day and that night win I got on KZfaq their was videos that poped up that went with the answer
@beforemidnight9450
@beforemidnight9450 3 жыл бұрын
At 3:33 those Ingots look sooooo crisp. Unlimited Potential right there
@axolotl8316
@axolotl8316 3 жыл бұрын
So neat eh
@beforemidnight9450
@beforemidnight9450 3 жыл бұрын
@@axolotl8316 yup
@em_yu
@em_yu 2 жыл бұрын
i love this, the ingenuity makes me hopeful for the world
@NandiCollector
@NandiCollector 4 жыл бұрын
These recycling videos are so educative & enjoyable to watch!
@lawrencefried5027
@lawrencefried5027 Жыл бұрын
I agree. How about the engineers who invent these machines and then build them? Pretty smart!
@GeeseFX
@GeeseFX 4 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure with all the parties that I've thrown and the beer that I've drank myself in my life that I have personally contributed to at least one entire rocket ship.
@kishascape
@kishascape 2 жыл бұрын
I would like to make a stone henge in my backyard out of those huge ingots.
@akinordman7145
@akinordman7145 2 жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Just had my car recycled and waited it to be a spoon. My cans? A Transformer.
@altheeathoone
@altheeathoone 2 жыл бұрын
And you're proud of that?
@GeeseFX
@GeeseFX 2 жыл бұрын
@@altheeathoone yes
@lukewarmwater6412
@lukewarmwater6412 2 жыл бұрын
sure, as well as at least one airliner, maybe an aluminum bass boat or two....gotta do your share right?
@marth6271
@marth6271 3 жыл бұрын
Im roud to say I have done my part in this worldwide symphony.
@Misserbi
@Misserbi 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the heads up!
@cashbonanza963
@cashbonanza963 5 жыл бұрын
So basically I sent my coke can to space before Elon did his Tesla
@marius4900
@marius4900 4 жыл бұрын
69
@frankdatank2529
@frankdatank2529 3 жыл бұрын
Hah
@ryaneglinton8970
@ryaneglinton8970 3 жыл бұрын
Yep. Elon fake.
@kevinroylancephotography9437
@kevinroylancephotography9437 3 жыл бұрын
Your coke can was part of Elon's Tesla
@gaston8383
@gaston8383 3 жыл бұрын
Technically it was never yours bye Felicia
@kyrenhaong2223
@kyrenhaong2223 4 жыл бұрын
4:53 that guy has been waiting his whole career to say that😂😂😂
@TheAaronmcmahon11
@TheAaronmcmahon11 2 жыл бұрын
4:12 I want my back passed back and forth on warm rollers. Sounds amazing
@therealuncleowen2588
@therealuncleowen2588 Жыл бұрын
Underrated comment!
@maxgreen8901
@maxgreen8901 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I was drinking a can of soda and couldn't help but wonder. Now I know.
@billsabado9393
@billsabado9393 5 жыл бұрын
Aluminum, aluminium...I just want my 5 cents per can
@salvatornado
@salvatornado 5 жыл бұрын
10 in Oregon
@AuthorJoelKrupa
@AuthorJoelKrupa 5 жыл бұрын
10 cents here in Michigan.
@canadianrocketfanvees942
@canadianrocketfanvees942 5 жыл бұрын
nickel back for pop and dime back for beer in british columbia
@russellcook4792
@russellcook4792 5 жыл бұрын
In Texas u get crap per can
@r.livingston7745
@r.livingston7745 5 жыл бұрын
Yep, 33 cans to get a lousy 50-cents.
@compilationsandvines8506
@compilationsandvines8506 5 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is super neat! YAAAY FOR RECYCLING!
@onrr1726
@onrr1726 3 жыл бұрын
I used to work at an Aluminum company called Scepter in New York State. we recycled everything from staples to cans and up to aircraft parts, railroad cars and car engines.
@liryan
@liryan 2 жыл бұрын
I’m here to watch melting cans but got the full cycle instead! A great video
@TheSilverGate
@TheSilverGate 5 жыл бұрын
The music in the furnaces part is remarkable👏
@zhgt8853
@zhgt8853 5 жыл бұрын
“A brave furnace worker scrapes it off” Shows a frontloader with a 10 ft long shovel attached to the front
@brandonbrown3600
@brandonbrown3600 5 жыл бұрын
@@weakmill103 as a equipment mechanic for a metal recycling facility the JD loader has AC with filtered air in a closed cab. He is fine behind that nice long scraper. The other guys they are hit as fuck.
@donnash5813
@donnash5813 5 жыл бұрын
@@brandonbrown3600 hot
@jakejacen955
@jakejacen955 5 жыл бұрын
I was gonna say so lol.
@tonycervz89
@tonycervz89 5 жыл бұрын
Nothing But Pussies In This Comment
@kramerx7518
@kramerx7518 5 жыл бұрын
​@@weakmill103 I bet you´re fun at partiesrties, sure ur right but this comment was funny
@carlospolk5033
@carlospolk5033 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting. So based on this specific video, England melt and recycles, Germany presses it into sheets & UK forms them back into cans. Lol a love triangle
@handmaderestor
@handmaderestor 3 жыл бұрын
*The colour of the steel resulting from the oil-quenching is amazing*
@italiantwat5136
@italiantwat5136 4 жыл бұрын
The American scientist: we call it Aluminum Narrator: yea you are crazy, I'm gonna call it Aluminium
@freshkii3198
@freshkii3198 4 жыл бұрын
The rest of the world calls it Aluminium
@pope4106
@pope4106 4 жыл бұрын
What does it matter if you pronounce it differently?
@marius4900
@marius4900 4 жыл бұрын
I call it Alumium
@bumzilla8586
@bumzilla8586 4 жыл бұрын
I call it anusium
@dannyphantom9540
@dannyphantom9540 4 жыл бұрын
I call it annurism
@Crlpope
@Crlpope 5 жыл бұрын
I remember in Charlotte there was a one cent per can machine where you could recycle these cans. It was only for aluminum cans if there had a steel pop top you had to rake it off first for the machine to take it. That was the good old days us kids would walk along the roadside and pick up cans. We could make several bucks a day,
@samlabo1688
@samlabo1688 5 жыл бұрын
The Alcoa can machine?
@51WCDodge
@51WCDodge 2 жыл бұрын
Used to do that with glass bottles. Walk along the beach in the evening pick up the bottles and take them back. Belgium still does it. The deposit on the bottle is more expensive than the beer. :-)
@judis.1810
@judis.1810 2 жыл бұрын
There are stores up here in Massachusetts that u take ur aluminum cans and plastic and glass bottles to to recycle them. You get a piece of paper that gives you money back for recycling ur bottles and cans.
@austinhernandez2716
@austinhernandez2716 2 жыл бұрын
I still do that now! I scrap all metal that I can find. Copper is the most valuable common metal but it's rare when going scrapping on the streets(well insulated wire is common but doesn't have a lot, not worth stripping). Aluminum though is very common. Entire ditches will be full with cans
@joeyvindictive3552
@joeyvindictive3552 2 жыл бұрын
How much is aluminum worth at the scrap yard? Is it actually worth more than a nickel per can?
@jordanalexander615
@jordanalexander615 Жыл бұрын
Feels pretty cool to say ive work frequently at one of these plants in the US. Doing repairs and all the nasty work you never get to see. Water pumps, giant stainless steel belts, piping, 2000hp electric motor swaps, everything you can think of. But dear god is it miserable sometimes. Sometimes its so hot your boots melt into the grating on the floors. Give you superb gripping though lol.
@logans3365
@logans3365 11 ай бұрын
It’s not profitable to pay for cooling in a furnace factory, even if it improves quality of life greatly
@dardar1862
@dardar1862 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Thanks!
@rossbryan6102
@rossbryan6102 5 жыл бұрын
OOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOO!!!! MY BEER CAN IS FLYING TO MARS WHILE I AM STUCK HERE ON EARTH!!! LIFE IS SO UNFAIR!!!😨😨😨😨
@markhondaturbo
@markhondaturbo 5 жыл бұрын
Trust me you wouldn't want to be where your can is, it's freezing up there. And Mars would be lonely.
@biggestd7117
@biggestd7117 5 жыл бұрын
Space is fake
@swiwiws125
@swiwiws125 5 жыл бұрын
@@biggestd7117 bruh sound effect #2
@simonvanleuven
@simonvanleuven 4 жыл бұрын
Great piece explaining how recycling cans in the UK happens👍 Anyone interested in Plastics Recycling too?
@jessejamez707
@jessejamez707 3 жыл бұрын
Never been more proud of me old squirt cans. Going up to ye old space in a rocket. 🥺 great job lil buddy. Great job.
@johng5295
@johng5295 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks in a million. Great content. Awesome. Grade: A++💥
@RededicateYrLife
@RededicateYrLife 4 жыл бұрын
I started picking up this habit of walking out the house with a bag and where ever I go I pick up cans and recycle it's a win-win for me
@ahs635
@ahs635 4 жыл бұрын
When I was young, we were poor. Picking up trash to sell are one of my ways to do a past time. I am happy and consider myself lucky when I see aluminum cans along the road or garden bushes. It can be sold at higher penny comparing than iron or used white papers. By the way, I prefer saying a-loo-me-noom. LOL.
@carlp5348
@carlp5348 4 жыл бұрын
A HS Someday by a $2 ticket and I hope you win 20000 or more I bless you for being honest
@carlp5348
@carlp5348 4 жыл бұрын
A HS because when I was 12 years old I used to cut wood and sell it to markets for them to burn for heat and this is here in the USA I used to clean snow I started working at 10 years old I came from a family of 12 we had a farm and things were tough every $2 I used to earn I used to always buy Grain for the animals I miss them days if I can do it all over again I would
@ahs635
@ahs635 4 жыл бұрын
@@carlp5348 i appreciate sharing your thoughts to me. its good to know that even though life seem to be very hard on us, we managed to overcome it and always focus on the brighter side of the day. God bless you.
@Cacowninja
@Cacowninja 4 жыл бұрын
If it's okay to ask why were you poor?
@ahs635
@ahs635 3 жыл бұрын
@@Cacowninja sure. my mom is a housewife and only finished highschool. my dad is a college graduate. used to have a good paying corporate job as an HR. but his colleague, whom he helped getting in a job in his company, betrayed him by forging his signature on a certain company document. he was fired and my dad never went back to this industry. he later get freelance job and landed on construction industry as a mason. his salary wasn't enough and there are times that it will take 2 or 3 months before he had another project to work with. luckily, our government offers free education from elementary to high school. i went in to a state university but failed to graduate after second year because my parents can't give me allowances regularly and the university was like 60 miles away from home and I can't even afford dormitory rent and goes home and school back and forth. its quite funny that 95% of the tuition fee was provided by the government and I can't even manage to finish college. anyway, i still managed to get a corporate job where I am being paid equally to those who have graduated college. I have skills enough for the employer to trust me and keep me working in their top 200 Fortune company.
@michaelboyd3924
@michaelboyd3924 3 жыл бұрын
Cans and bottles and basic "town" crap ended up along the county road which split my Iowa farm. One nice autumn day in 1977, having consumed too much (actually, as it turned out, it was the right amount) cold beer with a couple of neighboring farmers, I began to rant about all the crap along my land frontage. One farmer jokingly suggested that I call my congressman. Everyone laughed but me. So, I grab my phone, call information to find out my congressman's number, and actually him to give him Hell. I suggested at least a 5-cent charge like the old "pop" bottles back in the day. What happens next? Iowa begins to charge a nickel per bottle or can. The pragmatic, no change, no progressive Conservatives blew a head gasket. But, the law prevailed. Recycling came into being in Iowa just because some half-drunk Iowa farmers called a congressman (Well, actually I called). So, sue me.
@johnpalma7265
@johnpalma7265 2 жыл бұрын
Michael Boyd: I don't recall ever seeing a rebate notice that included IOWA on any can, and certainly not in 1977
@seanisbell1716
@seanisbell1716 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks... I used to collect beer cans on the side of the road in Bettendorf and Davenport made good money in the mid 80z.
@Ccc.9125
@Ccc.9125 2 жыл бұрын
Love it from amazing UK.
@joerogansrealmpodcast
@joerogansrealmpodcast 5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad my aluminum/aluminium question has been answered
@kishascape
@kishascape 2 жыл бұрын
Alumium it is
@Jerome4277
@Jerome4277 5 жыл бұрын
He just had to pop in a dad joke in there 😂😂 ... 4:46 ,
@deathninja16
@deathninja16 2 жыл бұрын
ive worked in a place in kentucky thats basically the carbon copy of this place. i installed new tracks for the molten aluminum and i also welded new teeth on the shredder.
@matthieugauthier5128
@matthieugauthier5128 3 жыл бұрын
This is awesome they need to show this to Americans & people who don’t believe in Recycling
@ibrahimakhtar9699
@ibrahimakhtar9699 5 жыл бұрын
my old sprite is in space
@subscriberswithoutconten-lc7lt
@subscriberswithoutconten-lc7lt 5 жыл бұрын
My old coca cola is in space
@crazboy9x
@crazboy9x 5 жыл бұрын
I so proud of it
@depressedcringeychild9671
@depressedcringeychild9671 5 жыл бұрын
wanna sprite cranberry?
@yummyjasmine7015
@yummyjasmine7015 5 жыл бұрын
some fat bitches diet cokes made it up there
@Live-Life-Freely
@Live-Life-Freely 5 жыл бұрын
It's probably just another can because there is no space.
@Dronkhrrrrng
@Dronkhrrrrng 5 жыл бұрын
"The paint and lacquer arent so lucky. They're instantly vaporized." i lost it
@darrenpat182
@darrenpat182 4 жыл бұрын
And we are going to run out of paint and lacquer... They can't be recycled
@davidwillard7334
@davidwillard7334 2 жыл бұрын
BETTER ! WEAR !! AN ! OXYGEN !! MASK !! AND ! SNORKEL !!
@xxbigkisses
@xxbigkisses 2 жыл бұрын
incredible processes and machines
@51WCDodge
@51WCDodge 2 жыл бұрын
Note to the Younger generation: You used to get money if you returned old glass bottles. Then the cost , despite the 1800 odd Kilometere journey involved for aluminium became cheaper.
@hanzz9083
@hanzz9083 5 жыл бұрын
Mercury man: "lets put chaos in those factories"
@donotneed2250
@donotneed2250 4 жыл бұрын
In the USA we don't send the aluminum cans overseas. They're recycled right here. The last load I picked up was in south Texas and I took it to Alcoa, TN, to be made into aluminum wheels. That was a load of cans but I've also hauled the ingots. I just wish I had video from the way my trailer was unloaded. I do have at least one picture of the way it was loaded though. It's similar for plastic bottles too. There's a place in Jackson, MS I used to pick up preforms a lot. The loads weighed 42,000 pounds but could be a bit top-heavy.
@cuthwulf
@cuthwulf Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your service. We do however export cans as well as import cans. We also export ingot/import ingot and virtually every type of aluminum alloy. We're not as big exporters as importers, but it does happen. I work at a recycling facility.
@Catman1798
@Catman1798 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating indeed.
@markclark9239
@markclark9239 9 ай бұрын
Hello that is so excellent doing great bless you all ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@richardwatson1698
@richardwatson1698 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, that was very informative.
@gerardogomez1830
@gerardogomez1830 2 жыл бұрын
Great info Thank you
@nicoles8176
@nicoles8176 2 жыл бұрын
Wow!! Amazing!
@crystalclear3510
@crystalclear3510 4 жыл бұрын
"YES WE CAN"
@anubhav1234misra
@anubhav1234misra 5 жыл бұрын
Those stacks of cas remind of wall-E
@mvblitzyo
@mvblitzyo 3 жыл бұрын
excellent ..
@rajeshrao2008
@rajeshrao2008 3 жыл бұрын
The scale of modern industrialization is mind boggling. 6.5 million cans produced per day by this one factory. Imagine how many other factories are churning out this and how big is the market. Humans are able to manufacture these many no. of items!
@yuanruichen2564
@yuanruichen2564 Жыл бұрын
capitalism tends to overproduce while socialism does the opposite, two kinds of evils
@Oceansta
@Oceansta 4 жыл бұрын
03:00 The music tells me this factory is owned by Wayne Enterprises.
@Cacowninja
@Cacowninja 4 жыл бұрын
@Mr Shikigami No Batman, Bruce Wayne's alter ego.
@EweTubio
@EweTubio 5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing. How much energy would be saved, if the German factory was in England
@kfftfuftur
@kfftfuftur 5 жыл бұрын
None - its much easier to transport one big ingot than many small cans. and since Germany has a more central position in europe the cans wont have to travel too far.
@EdwinBlees
@EdwinBlees 2 жыл бұрын
@@kfftfuftur Then listen well. The large block is transported 900kilometer to germany. There it is flattened and rolled up. Then the large reel is transported back to england. Not the small canns, but the large reel. So, yeah, two times 900 kilometer transport of a heavy block. It's silly.
@gavanwhatever8196
@gavanwhatever8196 2 жыл бұрын
Brexit will sort that out. All three factories will end up in Germany...
@LoneWolf-ck7pj
@LoneWolf-ck7pj 2 жыл бұрын
@@gavanwhatever8196 Until Putin turns off their gas.
@alien9279
@alien9279 2 жыл бұрын
Was wondering the same thing. Just get a roller next to where they make the ingots. Such a waste of time otherwise.
@carlbowles1808
@carlbowles1808 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing feat of human mind and creativity through engerneering.
@terra69
@terra69 2 жыл бұрын
Discovery Channel is the best. From my 2:00 AM videos: How it's made to this masterpiece.
@BiggTruckDriving
@BiggTruckDriving 5 жыл бұрын
Love love love it, always wanted to know everything you covered, I haul the empty cans in my truck yearly great video.
@MightyYoungSir
@MightyYoungSir 4 жыл бұрын
My old can is headin' to space! he'he' (hillbilly laugh)
@PeaceChanel
@PeaceChanel 2 жыл бұрын
Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste and Thank You for All that you are doing for World Peace.. 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ☮️ ❤️
@williamscoggin1509
@williamscoggin1509 2 жыл бұрын
I know the answer to this! I used to drive an 18-wheeler years ago here in Texas, I would carry fresh beef from a privately owned packing plant before the corporations bought all of them out, from East Texas all the way to New Mexico to a lunch meat factory. After unloading sometimes they would have me stop by this place where everybody brought their aluminum cans and they were crushed and compacted into square aluminum can bails. I would then take my trailer full of them down below San Antonio a little ways on i-37 to an aluminum smelting plant where they would melt them down into molds and make aluminum ingots that were probably 1 ft high 3 ft wide and 46 ft long. As to where they went after that I was no longer involved and would go home and sleep 👍🏻🛌
@Mu5096rdgh
@Mu5096rdgh 4 жыл бұрын
I used to work at an aluminium plant, in Birmingham, UK. In the offices, I remember one time they actually got into clothing, they had a fashion show where the girls wore dresses made from aluminium. I don't think it ever caught on. 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️ I always recycle my cans! 😊
@crisramirez6504
@crisramirez6504 5 жыл бұрын
It’s all about energy when it comes to recycling stuff...
@davidwillard7334
@davidwillard7334 2 жыл бұрын
NUCLEAR ! REACTOR !??
@RaymondBCrisp
@RaymondBCrisp Жыл бұрын
When I look at the big bales of aluminum at the beginning, I see the inspiration for the Borg Cubes from Star Trek.
@ephraimwarrior6766
@ephraimwarrior6766 2 жыл бұрын
this was so kool to watch and learn
@m-g5remoticadoalecjoshuaa.606
@m-g5remoticadoalecjoshuaa.606 5 жыл бұрын
Don’t mind me. Just exploring youtube’s recommendation lists
@donnash5813
@donnash5813 5 жыл бұрын
Be careful. There is a dark side.
@TacoStacks
@TacoStacks 5 жыл бұрын
Scrap Life!
@limtolim9555
@limtolim9555 5 жыл бұрын
Taco Stacks but you never pick up aluminum can.....
@charlestrubl
@charlestrubl 5 жыл бұрын
Taco Stacks love your channel!
@billmays1881
@billmays1881 5 жыл бұрын
Taco Stacks i swear i see your channel on like 8 completely different channels (herculys candy, discovery channel,ERB etc)
@marius4900
@marius4900 4 жыл бұрын
Taco
@Gameknight2169
@Gameknight2169 3 жыл бұрын
69 likes nice
@SovannT92
@SovannT92 Жыл бұрын
That shredder has more horsepower than my horse
@jonathancolney9357
@jonathancolney9357 3 жыл бұрын
Wow!! Interesting 😉
@franktedder1236
@franktedder1236 5 жыл бұрын
Technically recycled cans aren't pure aluminum, they're an alloy. The tops of the cans are a different type of aluminum than the body of the can
@notahotshot
@notahotshot 2 жыл бұрын
"Technically" even new cans aren't pure aluminum. They're an aluminum/magnesium alloy, with the top having a higher percentage of magnesium in the alloy.
@jayadinash9102
@jayadinash9102 2 жыл бұрын
If that's true, you would expect the alloy to increase in magnesium content each time the can is recycled. Unless they add virgin aluminum.
@MilesProwerTailsFox
@MilesProwerTailsFox 2 жыл бұрын
@@jayadinash9102 the top is less than the body :v
@garrettmillard525
@garrettmillard525 Жыл бұрын
@@jayadinash9102 That isn't the case because magnesium is more reactive than aluminum. More is lost to slag than aluminum
@handl3_me
@handl3_me 5 жыл бұрын
They're scientists, their job excites them, obviously they're passionate about what they do, good for them 👌
@mayandas9581
@mayandas9581 Жыл бұрын
Discovery nice sar
@BubbleTeaKristin
@BubbleTeaKristin 3 жыл бұрын
This video was awesome 😎👍🏼😃
@phatrides222000
@phatrides222000 4 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this as I drink my beer out of an aluminum can after working in an alumina plant all day long.
@RSx94
@RSx94 5 жыл бұрын
6:00 Imagine a guy who makes a tiny mistake in his forklift and knocks it all down
@tallvidsanimation6177
@tallvidsanimation6177 4 жыл бұрын
Reaper lol I know what ur talking about
@justinthematrix
@justinthematrix 3 жыл бұрын
Great to see!!
@markmayfield2228
@markmayfield2228 2 жыл бұрын
I used to haul ingots and sows out of the Alcoa plant in Rockdale, Texas to the Reynolds Aluminum plant near Davenport, IA (don't remember exactly where...20 years ago).
@Eybi18race
@Eybi18race 4 жыл бұрын
Watching this during pandemic. Got curios of everything I see, then boom I am searching everything in the web. :D
@brennancattermole3898
@brennancattermole3898 5 жыл бұрын
'Brave' operator scrapes off aluminium-oxide: sits in wheel loader with a 10 ft pole...
@empyre4421
@empyre4421 5 жыл бұрын
Brennan Cattermole it’s still pretty hot
@Jrez
@Jrez 5 жыл бұрын
It's deadly metal
@AndrooUK
@AndrooUK 5 жыл бұрын
Such a trooper. Give that man an OBE.
@randomvideowatcher
@randomvideowatcher 5 жыл бұрын
The operator is one of the few people who would touch it with a 10 ft. pole
@bulkhead15
@bulkhead15 4 жыл бұрын
randomvideowatcher so he’s the grinch song
@bryanrotchell1565
@bryanrotchell1565 2 жыл бұрын
What a big machine it does the job 👍
@ebobboom4262
@ebobboom4262 Жыл бұрын
When you're so baked you find yourself watching this
@SgtJoeSmith
@SgtJoeSmith 5 жыл бұрын
My old beer cans are now ford f150 beds.
@markhondaturbo
@markhondaturbo 5 жыл бұрын
Now they are the whole body on the newer F-150
@JamesBond-uz2dm
@JamesBond-uz2dm 5 жыл бұрын
I drink a Boeing 737 fuselage yearly.
@jamescarter5417
@jamescarter5417 5 жыл бұрын
They use pabst blue ribbon cans to make Ford's that's why they're crap
@darrelr8340
@darrelr8340 5 жыл бұрын
@@jamescarter5417 cans are cans dumbas
@jamescarter5417
@jamescarter5417 5 жыл бұрын
@@darrelr8340 you Must drive a ford
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