Recycling Small Aluminium Foil Pieces
Aluminium is an extremely energy intensive and environmentally degrading product to make by processing ore from the earth. It is also easily recyclable and reusable once recycled. Therefore we need to recycle as much aluminium as we can to close the aluminium sustainability loop.
Recycling small pieces of aluminium foil by making a large aluminium ball.
After visiting our local recycle centre we realised that small pieces of aluminium foil may easily get lost in the recycling process so we decided to make the small aluminium foil pieces larger and more likely to get recycled by clumping them together and making aluminium balls.
To do this we collect all small pieces of aluminium foil in a container such as chocolate wrappers and lids/coverings off dips and yoghurts etc. We also keep any larger pieces of aluminium foil from say chocolate blocks and then wrap all the small pieces of foil inside the larger piece to make one large aluminium ball which goes straight into our recycle bin.
We also collect steel bottle tops in steel cans for recycling too…
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Great tip! Thanks for sharing