• kaitco
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    6 months ago

    Not entirely. All cans currently made (at least for the US) have a super thin plastic liner to help the drink avoid taking on too much of a metallic taste.

    There are multiple YouTubes out there that will show you what happens when you dissolve an aluminum can; the dissolution process removes the aluminum and leaves the plastic liner.

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      6 months ago

      Not sure what you mean by dissolving. As far as so know aluminum gets melted down. Any plastic, inks, or other impurities get burned off generally.

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          6 months ago

          Yah, that’s not how they are recycled. That gets burned off by the temps required to melt the aluminum.

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              6 months ago

              It’s not. It’s a thin plastic film. One that doesn’t get into the environment at nearly the rate, since the aluminum is actually worth recycling.

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                  6 months ago

                  I think you may have an unworkable concept of what “solving” the plastic problem means, when you can’t tell the difference between a film and a bottle. Both of which have largely phased out BPA already.

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            6 months ago

            I, nor the poster you replied to, never mentioned recycling. Your starting to put things into the discussion that was never there.

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              6 months ago

              It does seem that way.
              I guess I’m not sure what problem you’re talking about.