Aluminum Foil

Aluminum foil is a very thin sheet of aluminum used for cooking and covering food.   Heavier sheet aluminum is used for food trays.

• Rinse and wipe off all food debris.
• Combine with other metal beverage containers.
• Do not place aluminum foil in plastic bags.

Aluminum foil and food trays, if wiped/washed free of food debris, can be recycled with other metal cans.

• Recycling aluminum creates 97 percent less water pollution than producing new metal from bauxite ore.
• The energy saved by recycling 1 ton of aluminum equals the amount of electricity used by a typical home in 10 years.

What is aluminum foil made into?
Foil packaging can be made into wrapping foil, semi-rigid packaging such as pie plates and food trays, and as flexible packaging such as gum or candy wrappers. 

Aluminum foil is shredded, cleaned, melted and mixed with a pure aluminum base, then recast into new aluminum products.  This basic melt-and-recast process eliminates the mining, shipping and refining processes necessary to create new aluminum from bauxite ore.  Bauxite ore is refined into alumina (aluminum oxide), one of the primary feedstocks for aluminum metal.  Aluminum never wears out and can be recycled over and over again.

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