Recycling a can
By: Cynthia MacGregor.
Series: Rosen real readers
Publisher: Rosen Pub. Group; Rosen Publishing Group
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780823982394
Subjects: Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile literature.; Aluminum cans -- Recycling -- Juvenile literature.; Recycling (Waste); Aluminum -- Recycling.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Follows an aluminum can from the time it is collected for recycling, through ninety days of different processing steps, to a new can that is ready for use.
Table of contents: title: Why recycle?; title: The cycle starts; title: The recycling plant; title: Shredded and heated; title: Screened and cleaned; title: Into the furnace; title: Squashed and flattened; title: A two-mile coil; title: From coil to foil; title: A two-month cycle.