From its status as the symbol of roadside trash in the 1970s, the humble aluminum can has risen to become the single most valuable commodity in the national recycling stream. While aluminum cans ...

Hamed is one of thousands of Indians who live in Dharavi, one of the largest slum towns in South Asia, and make money by recycling and reusing nearly every aluminum material they can find. Not only do ...

While green and brown bottles are better at blocking light, only aluminum cans can block it out 100%. Moreover, bottles are ...

The practice of crushing aluminum cans before dumping them in the garbage ... though not advised, and dumped only with their caps on. The latter is an important step to consider since bottle ...

but Americans throw out millions of tons of it every year — mainly aluminum cans and other post-consumer scrap. At the same time, US can-recycling rates are falling drastically behind several ...