Waste Aware Campus: Recycle

Cans

When you recycle your cans, they can be transformed into building materials, car parts or new cans.

Facts about cans

Aluminium cans are lighter than steel, and the base of an aluminium can is shinier

A magnet will stick to a steel can, but it will not stick to an aluminium can.

Making one can from raw materials uses the same amount of energy that it takes to recycle 20 cans.

In 2006, 48% of all aluminium drinks cans were recycled (Alupro).

Recycling aluminium is 20 times more efficient than making it from the raw material, bauxite (Alupro).

Cans Recycling Journey
Follow the cans recycling journey to find out what happens to your cans after they are collected for recycling.

You can currently recycle cans in every local authority area of Scotland. Find out if you can recycle cans using your kerbside recycling service where you live.

Search for your nearest can recycling point on Sort It.