Steel, aluminum, and other types of metal are very common materials found across the globe. Every year they’re produced in vast quantities and used in multiple applications. The usefulness of metal was discovered thousands of years ago. And since then, technology has combined metals, making them stronger and more reliable than ever.Longevity, malleability, conductivity, and strength are the reasons they have been used over the years to provide us with many of the goods we use today. Various metals can be found in cars, computers, buildings, utensils, etc. Metals can remain viable products, even decades after they’re discarded.

Metals can be recycled indefinitely without losing any of their properties over time. One of the most recycled metals is aluminum. Like most metals we use, aluminum is an ore. The bauxite, a reddish clay-like ore, rich in aluminum compounds, is mined for the metal. The tricky thing about processing the aluminum is that it only exists in combination with other elements, usually oxygen.

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