Recycling a can
By: Cynthia MacGregor.
Edition: 1st library ed.
Series: The Rosen Publishing Group's reading room collection
Publisher: Rosen Pub. Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
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.
Notes: Includes index.
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.