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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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"!
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.
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.
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.
In Austria you don't get shit for recycling cans. I still do it, but a little payback would motivate way more ppl to recycling I think... which us so important nowadays...
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.
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.
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
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.
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 RUclips their was videos that poped up that went with the answer
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,
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. :-)
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.
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
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.
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
@@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 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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
It really takes away from the video, I just skipped over the parts with those idiots talking , He looks like that guy that got bodysnatched in the movie Get Out
I'm in awe of the sheer size of some of these machines. It's amazing. I was very poor as a kid. Picking up trash and selling it was one of my pastimes.
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! 😊
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.
*I have never been more jealous of an empty can of Pepsi then I have now that I have watched this video. My empty can of Pepsi gets to go to Outer Space and I can't* 😭 LOL
This is what I do in the back yard on a slightly smaller scale, the King of Random got me melting cans and casting ingots. Its a lot of fun melting metals and casting stuff, its the main thing I do on RUclips these days. This was very interesting to see, the Aluminium VS Aluminum part was interesting, lets all just call it Alumium again and be done with the discussion 👍
But the process of obtaining aluminum from the ground is far more experience and takes several time the energy requirements. The fuel is the biggest cost on the melters.
Aluminum is actually pretty easy to melt compared to other metals. Its melting point is only 1200 degrees, by comparison copper is 1900 and steel is 2500.
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 👍🏻🛌
also a good reason that it takes so much energy to make is because aluminum is highly reactive and almost never is found in its metallic state. Compounds of it need to be refined, heated up until molten, held there, and then electrolyzed. The electrolysis part can be thought of as adding energy to separate nonillions of stuck together tiny strong magnets which is extracting the aluminum from the rest of the molecule.
@@tobyhorn9641 the point OP was making was that aluminum ore is an oxide - you must put a shit ton of energy into it in order to get elemental aluminum out. It takes less energy to remelt that same elemental aluminum later; which is why recycling is essential.
@@chouseification then Thay need to pay us more when we sell cans and such at the junk yard what we get payed for junk is about half to quarter what that do at The foundery
@@tobyhorn9641 yeah, yet they have to transport the cans from point A to point B, and pay the people doing the driving. Don't expect to get 80% of actual value unless you're selling gold.
In New York, (didn't know it was different in other states, hence the edit) you get five cents for each can you recycle. So, if you want to make one million dollars then, you'd have to recycle twenty million cans!
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!
"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.
I read that aluminium was discovered already in the late 16 hundreds in Europe, but as mentioned in the video, it’s been extremely expensive to extract for many years. However it was called Aluminium. Around 1850 or so an American engineer (forgot his) developed a furnace which was highly effective and made it drop drastically in price. This engineer used the wrong spelling in his patent description but as a act of honor for the merited contributor to US-industry they adopted „Aluminum“.
"I read that..." The spelling "aluminum" is a spelling first used by the British Chemist, Humphrey Davy. He first proposed the name "alumia" in 1808. In 1811 he published a paper calling it "aluminium". In 1812 he published a chemistry textbook, in it he called it "aluminum".
@@sammadsaeed3373, either name is considered acceptable, because they have both been used since the 1800s, from the very beginning of the use of the metal. It's just a variant spelling, like "grey" and "gray", "color" or "colour", "realize" or "realise".
Just for info, The heat due to radiation is unbearable. I have commissioned Tilt Rotary and stationary induction furnaces along with that "Spatula" in western region of India. My laptop used to hang due to heat while i was doing programming atleast 130 feet distance. i had to frequently visit nearby Air-conditioned control room to let it cool down. So Narrator was not exaggerating. i felt it.
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.
Couldn't agree more. You can't watch any documentary nowadays without inane rock music blaring over the top of the people speaking or the narrator constantly trying to create 'peril' by saying it could blow up, it could crash, everyone could die. I complained to CH4 in the UK that I could not hear the speech due to the loud background music in one of their documentaries, their reply was that I obviously was not their target audience! God help us all!
The process is very complex and energy-intensive, just for the sake of quenching your thirst for a very short while. Personally, I've picked so many drink cans littered in my local village for the past several years that it has totally put me off buying any drinks in cans. Drink cans are by far the most common items we collect. We do put the clean enough ones in our recycling. When I see what's involved in producing and recycling aluminium cans, I'm even less likely to buy them for my own consumption!
You should not be put off by the energy usage for recycling cans. It is still VASTLY less than the cost to produce new cans! What this video only briefly mentions is how hard it is to get aluminum out of the ground and smelt it into a usable form. Even compared to glass it is drastically harder. This is why using aluminum cans is so important...it ensures that the cans stay in circulation and are infinitely recyclable. If you want to make a big difference for the planet, contact your local authorities and start an effort for deposit programs (where you get $ for recycling cans). MOST of the world does not have these programs, which greatly increases recycle rates. Theoretically, if people recycled all aluminum cans, we could supply all the canned beverage needs without ever mining another lb. of aluminum from the ground.
@@cuthwulf Thanks for your comment. I'm in favour of a total ban on small drinks cans and bottles. The more litter I collect, the more I feel this way. So I'll keep picking litter and recycling what I find and will not buy a single drinks bottle for the rest of my life. Being the change I want to see.
@@cuthwulf The cans are not infinitely recyclable. There can be up to 20% metal loss during remelt. The coatings on the cans are also highly toxic and need to be treated first. The dross from processing is a mixture of sodium/potassium oxide, aluminium oxide and free metal. It is considered as hazardous waste which is costly and requires specialised equipment. The profitability of the whole process is highly dependent on the LME price for Al. Out of spec metal will reduce the price of the finished product. This little video makes it all sound clean, efficient and sensible. In reality it is a dirty, expensive and energy intensive process.
Back in the day when I worked in the smelter, all smoke from the furnaces is collected and filtered through a Bag House. I’m sure it’s all changed since I worked in that industry. Yes the smoke is highly toxic not good to breathe.
Few years ago I kept apart the cans at home. Then I decided to pick them up to the scrapyard. There they used a magnet on every metal container I carried. When suposed aluminum cans got stuck to the magnet I couldn´t believe it. I studied them on my carreer of environmental science as aluminum cans. There were many different brands. I was in shock. Maybe here in Spain they make them ferric (?)
Copper and aluminium (being lighter than copper) are the two most common metals used to carry an electromagnetic current. Even though they won't stick to a magnet by themselves, they still have magnetic properties, and can be induced to levitate in a magnetic field.
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My old coke can had done more things in a year then i have done in my life.
it`s true
😂😂😂😂
It's hilarious 😂
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Finally, an informative video without hyped up drama or annoying music. Thank you!
The entire episode is filled to the brim with drama and music actually
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Yeah
I am in awe of just how big some of those machines are. Amazing.
I'm in awe at the fact that someone built those machines😂
I'm in awe at the fact that someone could conceive the schematics for those machines 😂
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.
*sees aluminium rocket shooting into space*
"Godspeed, beer cans!"
They always try to push that bullshit to us rockets skin must be made of titanium, aluminium, would melt
@@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.
@@samovarmaker9673 titanium is a joke. We even use it in cosmetics as titanium dioxide
@@meghanachauhan9380 Titanium dioxide is a powder. Titanium metal is different.
UUURRP!🍻🥴😅🤣🤣🤣
My can is already in space.. * sniff * They grow up so fast 😢
I have to tell you that's the funniest thing I've read all week.
Do you have any idea how funny this is?
@Billy Grahammer A lot of space.
@15guinea ?
@@godschild5587 lol ok Boomer
americans: "aluminum"
britishers:""alu-min-ium"
me, an itellectual:"diet metal"
It's pronounced Nucular
Me ! AN ABSOLUTE !! PILE !! OF !! ..............!!!!!
The Brits' pronunciation is the correct one
First learn how to spell Mr.itellectual
@@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.
England. Where a double decker bus is a unit of measure.😜
That the metric system. In USA we use football fields as comparisons for measuring
And Olympic sized swimming pool
@@SgtJoeSmith Which will be 110 yards by 65 right? Or 150 yards including end zones? Just kidding, I'm Canadian. 😜
@@Dr_Do-Little Canadian? I'm surprised you know what football is. I thought curling was your only sport. Lol
@@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"!
3:18 if that's an ingot, my shovel is a teaspoon.
Ingots is just a term used for a bar of smelted metal.
No it's not
Yes it is.
@@touxiong519 How big can something be and still be a bar? And not a slab?
@@NieroshaiTheSable the biggest ingot is 300 tonnes , so they don't care as long as it's a pure metal in an oblong shape
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.
What's the name of the company. I'm into the business and I'll love to export bailed UBS to them
These recycling videos are so educative & enjoyable to watch!
I agree. How about the engineers who invent these machines and then build them? Pretty smart!
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.
I would like to make a stone henge in my backyard out of those huge ingots.
Oh wow. Just had my car recycled and waited it to be a spoon. My cans? A Transformer.
And you're proud of that?
@@altheeathoone yes
sure, as well as at least one airliner, maybe an aluminum bass boat or two....gotta do your share right?
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.
In Austria you don't get shit for recycling cans. I still do it, but a little payback would motivate way more ppl to recycling I think... which us so important nowadays...
Good point. I also wonder why it's always been just the same handful of states that do a redemption program.
2:13 lol with that music its like they're unveiling the final boss of aluminum can recycling.
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.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Heh
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.
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.
Michigan’s bottle return is 10 cents per bottle it’s ridiculous but everybody recycles them because of that price.
This is giving me toy story 3 flash backs..
Samee hahahaha😂😂
Now you're talking!
The cccclllllaaaaawwww
U mean 2?
I saw monster's inc
1:54 the way this guy says “they’re instantly vaporized” like he’s making a sales pitch😂
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
*saves this clip for TF2 pyro gameplay*
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.
Anyone remember when this is the kind of thing often played on Discovery channel rather than all the reality tv crap now?
they were bought out by a billionaire with his own agenda
yeah ikr!
I’m sitting in the middle of a night shift at Novelis, thoroughly convinced that my phone heard my work conversations and suggested this
I’m on my night shift sitting in my pulpit running my tandem cold mill at jupiter wondering the same.
Im inseminating cattle right now. Best to turn phone off!
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 RUclips their was videos that poped up that went with the answer
4:12 I want my back passed back and forth on warm rollers. Sounds amazing
Underrated comment!
So basically I sent my coke can to space before Elon did his Tesla
69
Hah
Yep. Elon fake.
Your coke can was part of Elon's Tesla
Technically it was never yours bye Felicia
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,
The Alcoa can machine?
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. :-)
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.
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
How much is aluminum worth at the scrap yard? Is it actually worth more than a nickel per can?
Thanks, I was drinking a can of soda and couldn't help but wonder. Now I know.
4:53 that guy has been waiting his whole career to say that😂😂😂
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.
A HS Someday by a $2 ticket and I hope you win 20000 or more I bless you for being honest
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
@@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.
If it's okay to ask why were you poor?
@@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.
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Aluminum, aluminium...I just want my 5 cents per can
10 in Oregon
10 cents here in Michigan.
nickel back for pop and dime back for beer in british columbia
In Texas u get crap per can
Yep, 33 cans to get a lousy 50-cents.
“A brave furnace worker scrapes it off”
Shows a frontloader with a 10 ft long shovel attached to the front
@@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.
@@brandonbrown3600 hot
I was gonna say so lol.
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@@weakmill103 I bet you´re fun at partiesrties, sure ur right but this comment was funny
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.
It’s not profitable to pay for cooling in a furnace factory, even if it improves quality of life greatly
I'm glad my aluminum/aluminium question has been answered
Alumium it is
The music in the furnaces part is remarkable👏
At 3:33 those Ingots look sooooo crisp. Unlimited Potential right there
So neat eh
@@axolotl8316 yup
my old sprite is in space
My old coca cola is in space
I so proud of it
wanna sprite cranberry?
some fat bitches diet cokes made it up there
It's probably just another can because there is no space.
OOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
MY BEER CAN IS FLYING TO MARS WHILE I AM STUCK HERE ON EARTH!!! LIFE IS SO UNFAIR!!!😨😨😨😨
Trust me you wouldn't want to be where your can is, it's freezing up there. And Mars would be lonely.
Space is fake
@@biggestd7117 bruh sound effect #2
I’m here to watch melting cans but got the full cycle instead! A great video
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.
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.
"The paint and lacquer arent so lucky.
They're instantly vaporized."
i lost it
And we are going to run out of paint and lacquer... They can't be recycled
BETTER ! WEAR !! AN ! OXYGEN !! MASK !! AND ! SNORKEL !!
British: Alyuminium
Americans: Aluminum
Life of Boris: Aluminuminun
Wow! That is super neat! YAAAY FOR RECYCLING!
Absolutely amazing.
How much energy would be saved, if the German factory was in England
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.
@@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.
Brexit will sort that out.
All three factories will end up in Germany...
@@gavanwhatever8196 Until Putin turns off their gas.
Was wondering the same thing. Just get a roller next to where they make the ingots. Such a waste of time otherwise.
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.
Michael Boyd: I don't recall ever seeing a rebate notice that included IOWA on any can, and certainly not in 1977
Thanks... I used to collect beer cans on the side of the road in Bettendorf and Davenport made good money in the mid 80z.
He just had to pop in a dad joke in there 😂😂 ... 4:46 ,
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
This is awesome they need to show this to Americans & people who don’t believe in Recycling
Those stacks of cas remind of wall-E
03:00 The music tells me this factory is owned by Wayne Enterprises.
@Mr Shikigami No Batman, Bruce Wayne's alter ego.
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
Scrap Life!
Taco Stacks but you never pick up aluminum can.....
Taco Stacks love your channel!
Taco Stacks i swear i see your channel on like 8 completely different channels (herculys candy, discovery channel,ERB etc)
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They're scientists, their job excites them, obviously they're passionate about what they do, good for them 👌
Hello that is so excellent doing great bless you all ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Mercury man: "lets put chaos in those factories"
0:32 The way this dude talks gives me extreme anxiety
I don't get it but I laughed really hard
i laughed soooo fucking hard HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WHY IS HE SO HAPPY? HAHAHAHAHHAHA
Lol same!
It really takes away from the video, I just skipped over the parts with those idiots talking , He looks like that guy that got bodysnatched in the movie Get Out
Cause when ur not lookin he sgoign to steal something.
I'm in awe of the sheer size of some of these machines. It's amazing. I was very poor as a kid. Picking up trash and selling it was one of my pastimes.
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! 😊
"YES WE CAN"
Never been more proud of me old squirt cans. Going up to ye old space in a rocket. 🥺 great job lil buddy. Great job.
Thank you! I always wondered how they did that! 🙂
It’s all about energy when it comes to recycling stuff...
NUCLEAR ! REACTOR !??
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.
My old beer cans are now ford f150 beds.
Now they are the whole body on the newer F-150
I drink a Boeing 737 fuselage yearly.
They use pabst blue ribbon cans to make Ford's that's why they're crap
@@jamescarter5417 cans are cans dumbas
@@darrelr8340 you Must drive a ford
*I have never been more jealous of an empty can of Pepsi then I have now that I have watched this video. My empty can of Pepsi gets to go to Outer Space and I can't* 😭 LOL
Awesome, thanks for sharing
My old can is headin' to space! he'he' (hillbilly laugh)
This is what I do in the back yard on a slightly smaller scale, the King of Random got me melting cans and casting ingots.
Its a lot of fun melting metals and casting stuff, its the main thing I do on RUclips these days.
This was very interesting to see, the Aluminium VS Aluminum part was interesting, lets all just call it Alumium again and be done with the discussion 👍
Recycling is great. The earth is glad for us doing this
Watching this during pandemic. Got curios of everything I see, then boom I am searching everything in the web. :D
'Brave' operator scrapes off aluminium-oxide: sits in wheel loader with a 10 ft pole...
Brennan Cattermole it’s still pretty hot
It's deadly metal
Such a trooper. Give that man an OBE.
The operator is one of the few people who would touch it with a 10 ft. pole
randomvideowatcher so he’s the grinch song
It warms my heart to know we can, and do, recycle aluminum.👍
It seems the recycling process and transportation have high energy needs though... 🤔
But the process of obtaining aluminum from the ground is far more experience and takes several time the energy requirements. The fuel is the biggest cost on the melters.
Aluminum is actually pretty easy to melt compared to other metals. Its melting point is only 1200 degrees, by comparison copper is 1900 and steel is 2500.
Need to get more solar power
Don’t mind me. Just exploring youtube’s recommendation lists
Be careful. There is a dark side.
I'm watching this as I drink my beer out of an aluminum can after working in an alumina plant all day long.
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 👍🏻🛌
also a good reason that it takes so much energy to make is because aluminum is highly reactive and almost never is found in its metallic state. Compounds of it need to be refined, heated up until molten, held there, and then electrolyzed. The electrolysis part can be thought of as adding energy to separate nonillions of stuck together tiny strong magnets which is extracting the aluminum from the rest of the molecule.
What ?when you melt down the can all the impurities rise to the top as slag then they scrape it off and what you're left with is pure
Thermite: Aluminium steals oxygen from rusty iron.
@@tobyhorn9641 the point OP was making was that aluminum ore is an oxide - you must put a shit ton of energy into it in order to get elemental aluminum out. It takes less energy to remelt that same elemental aluminum later; which is why recycling is essential.
@@chouseification then Thay need to pay us more when we sell cans and such at the junk yard what we get payed for junk is about half to quarter what that do at The foundery
@@tobyhorn9641 yeah, yet they have to transport the cans from point A to point B, and pay the people doing the driving. Don't expect to get 80% of actual value unless you're selling gold.
In New York, (didn't know it was different in other states, hence the edit) you get five cents for each can you recycle. So, if you want to make one million dollars then, you'd have to recycle twenty million cans!
In the uk you get absolutely zero from what i know.
Are you serious? I’m going to be a millionaire!!!!!
In Pennsylvania you get 35-45 cents a pound for cans.
Canada, most provinces give 10cents per can, so that's only 10 million cans! Millionaire here I come! Lol!
I better get busy...
Thx 4 sharing.
That shredder has more horsepower than my horse
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!
capitalism tends to overproduce while socialism does the opposite, two kinds of evils
And a new can is born!
I ligit fell off my couch I was laughing way to hard 🛢
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
"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.
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.
@@jayadinash9102 the top is less than the body :v
@@jayadinash9102 That isn't the case because magnesium is more reactive than aluminum. More is lost to slag than aluminum
*The colour of the steel resulting from the oil-quenching is amazing*
An informative video after all❤ loved it
6:00 Imagine a guy who makes a tiny mistake in his forklift and knocks it all down
Reaper lol I know what ur talking about
I read that aluminium was discovered already in the late 16 hundreds in Europe, but as mentioned in the video, it’s been extremely expensive to extract for many years. However it was called Aluminium. Around 1850 or so an American engineer (forgot his) developed a furnace which was highly effective and made it drop drastically in price. This engineer used the wrong spelling in his patent description but as a act of honor for the merited contributor to US-industry they adopted „Aluminum“.
So is it correct to use both terms or Aluminum is the only correct choice ?
@@sammadsaeed3373 Yes
"I read that..."
The spelling "aluminum" is a spelling first used by the British Chemist, Humphrey Davy. He first proposed the name "alumia" in 1808. In 1811 he published a paper calling it "aluminium". In 1812 he published a chemistry textbook, in it he called it "aluminum".
@@sammadsaeed3373, either name is considered acceptable, because they have both been used since the 1800s, from the very beginning of the use of the metal. It's just a variant spelling, like "grey" and "gray", "color" or "colour", "realize" or "realise".
@@notahotshot ohhh I see! Thanks!
Amazing feat of human mind and creativity through engerneering.
Imao a “brave worker scapes it with a spatula” haha brave ??? The arm is like a hundred feet long 😂😂
Just for info, The heat due to radiation is unbearable. I have commissioned Tilt Rotary and stationary induction furnaces along with that "Spatula" in western region of India. My laptop used to hang due to heat while i was doing programming atleast 130 feet distance. i had to frequently visit nearby Air-conditioned control room to let it cool down. So Narrator was not exaggerating. i felt it.
kuldeeps90 seriously ? That’s actually insane
Yeah i have been in front of those furnaces before and u can feel the head from a good 5 yards away
Imagine how hot the air around that furnace is and you actually have to breathe in all that.
@@abking11 you can feel the head? Really?
I love how the British pronounces aluminum! Regardless of who’s right or wrong.
They like to drag things out, add letters and syllables so they can talk longer.
British are annoying.
it's pompous just like everything else they do. You know they still think were all bunch of dumb hick colonists, right?
Excellent! Thanks!
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.
I miss the old How It's Made. Simple commentary, chill music. This plays like a reality TV show.
Couldn't agree more. You can't watch any documentary nowadays without inane rock music blaring over the top of the people speaking or the narrator constantly trying to create 'peril' by saying it could blow up, it could crash, everyone could die. I complained to CH4 in the UK that I could not hear the speech due to the loud background music in one of their documentaries, their reply was that I obviously was not their target audience! God help us all!
This video was awesome 😎👍🏼😃
The process is very complex and energy-intensive, just for the sake of quenching your thirst for a very short while. Personally, I've picked so many drink cans littered in my local village for the past several years that it has totally put me off buying any drinks in cans. Drink cans are by far the most common items we collect. We do put the clean enough ones in our recycling. When I see what's involved in producing and recycling aluminium cans, I'm even less likely to buy them for my own consumption!
You should also put the unclean ones in recycling...the video shows everything but the aluminum is vaporized anyway..
@@danteinferno175 yes, absolutely! I have started to do this after watching the video!
You should not be put off by the energy usage for recycling cans. It is still VASTLY less than the cost to produce new cans! What this video only briefly mentions is how hard it is to get aluminum out of the ground and smelt it into a usable form. Even compared to glass it is drastically harder. This is why using aluminum cans is so important...it ensures that the cans stay in circulation and are infinitely recyclable. If you want to make a big difference for the planet, contact your local authorities and start an effort for deposit programs (where you get $ for recycling cans). MOST of the world does not have these programs, which greatly increases recycle rates. Theoretically, if people recycled all aluminum cans, we could supply all the canned beverage needs without ever mining another lb. of aluminum from the ground.
@@cuthwulf Thanks for your comment. I'm in favour of a total ban on small drinks cans and bottles. The more litter I collect, the more I feel this way. So I'll keep picking litter and recycling what I find and will not buy a single drinks bottle for the rest of my life. Being the change I want to see.
@@cuthwulf The cans are not infinitely recyclable. There can be up to 20% metal loss during remelt. The coatings on the cans are also highly toxic and need to be treated first. The dross from processing is a mixture of sodium/potassium oxide, aluminium oxide and free metal. It is considered as hazardous waste which is costly and requires specialised equipment.
The profitability of the whole process is highly dependent on the LME price for Al. Out of spec metal will reduce the price of the finished product.
This little video makes it all sound clean, efficient and sensible. In reality it is a dirty, expensive and energy intensive process.
I could make the whole industry come to a standstill if I decided not to return my beer cans.
When I look at the big bales of aluminum at the beginning, I see the inspiration for the Borg Cubes from Star Trek.
Wall-E: _"So that Im started pressing"_
Since the paint vaporizes, I'm wondering if the gas it forms us toxic. If yes, I'm wondering if something more chemically benign should be used.
Back in the day when I worked in the smelter, all smoke from the furnaces is collected and filtered through a Bag House. I’m sure it’s all changed since I worked in that industry. Yes the smoke is highly toxic not good to breathe.
Wow!! Interesting 😉
"Bunch of soda cans, send them to the Moon!"
Few years ago I kept apart the cans at home. Then I decided to pick them up to the scrapyard. There they used a magnet on every metal container I carried. When suposed aluminum cans got stuck to the magnet I couldn´t believe it. I studied them on my carreer of environmental science as aluminum cans. There were many different brands. I was in shock. Maybe here in Spain they make them ferric (?)
Copper and aluminium (being lighter than copper) are the two most common metals used to carry an electromagnetic current. Even though they won't stick to a magnet by themselves, they still have magnetic properties, and can be induced to levitate in a magnetic field.
Iron is a common impurity in aluminium, it is also used as an alloying material.
Love it from amazing UK.
*RUclips recommendations* : Aluminum cans!