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Cans recycling plant.

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· refined black metal.

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· light inert material.

· heavy inert material.

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Cans recycling plant.

This plant is designed to process and improve the quality of waste cans, sorted from MSW and industrial waste. The plant can accept cans of mixed (iron and aluminum) and other materials, and can also process cans containing a significant percentage of foreign materials (nylon, iron wire, wood, plastic, fabric, etc.). After the processing process, the final product will be ready to be sold as a secondary raw material. The composition of the installation can be changed depending on the incoming material and the desired output result at the request of the Customer.

The installation consists of the following components:

· crusher - for separating ferrous metals from non-magnetic materials such as wood, paper, plastic, glass, non-ferrous metal, etc.

· magnetic separator - for magnetic separation of ferrous metals from non-ferrous metals and non-metallic materials in a stream.

h quill separator - for separating material using the gravimetric method (specific gravity). With the help of belts, vertical columns and air currents, scrap metal is separated from impurities.

· eddy current separator - separates non-ferrous metal (aluminum, copper, etc.) from plastic, wood and other non-metallic materials from the flow.

Thanks to the installed software, the client can control the type and speed of the stream processing.

Received material after processing:

· refined black metal.

· cleaned mixed materials.

· light inert material.

· heavy inert material.

Hammermills, pulverizers and other machines in the plant are designed to reduce maintenance work and supervision by personnel. The control software is simple and intuitive and allows you to quickly control production. Netmus delivers a can crushing and cleaning plant ready for operation and equipped with safety devices, in accordance with current legislation, as well as dust separation systems.

Without going into too much detail, just to give you an idea, aluminum can recycling accounts for more than half of all the metal in recycling. Continuing the candor about the recycling industry, if you buy a product in an aluminum can once every 60 days, whether it's canned vegetables, fruits or soda, the product may be packaged in the recycled can you bought last time.

This is because it only takes 60 days for a manufacturer to receive recycled aluminum and put it back into the production cycle. Here is some additional information that highlights the importance of recycling aluminum cans:

Recycling of aluminum scrap

Unlike some products, aluminum scrap can be recycled over and over again, according to research and industry data. It also means that it's much more cost effective to buy recycled cans from the grocery store.

The highest recirculation rate

More than 57 percent of all used aluminum cans in Russia were recycled in 2014, giving banks the highest recycling rate of any product collected and sent to recycling centers across the country. This means that, according to the Aluminum Association and other research institutions that support manufacturers, about 55.5 billion aluminum cans were recycled in 2014, up nearly 2.3 billion cans from a year earlier. Despite this, aluminum cans make up only 20 percent of what ends up in landfills.

Comparing the aluminum can manufacturing process, which uses metals and ores, to the metal recycling process, waste recycling uses 95 percent less energy. This means that factories specializing in the production of metals emit 95 percent less greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Factories also require substantially less energy to produce a recycled can than the original product. Every kilogram of recycled aluminum saves enough energy to generate 24 kilowatt-hours of electricity. In a year, the plant saves enough energy to light St. Petersburg for about six years.

Money returned to pocket

And while the safety of the planet remains a good reason to recycle, there's nothing wrong with having cash in your pocket. Recycling centers across the country pay for aluminum cans, separately, in kilograms and tons, as you see fit and depending on the acceptance policy of the center. The amount varies slightly, but this is not unusual, you can count on 150-250 rubles per kilogram of aluminum. Of course, mere pennies for one or two aluminum cans, but this is already a matter of volume.

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How to open a recycling center for aluminum cans

Today, more and more soft drinks and beer are sold in aluminum cans and plastic bottles. There are quite objective reasons for this: aluminum cans are cheaper, weigh much less than a classic glass bottle, and you can just return them and get money.

The business idea is very simple - organizing a collection point for aluminum cans from beer and drinks. The thing is that large non-ferrous metal processing enterprises are not at all interested in exchanging for acceptance of 3-5 kg. recyclables from private deliverers, in addition, they are usually located somewhere in the suburbs or outside the city.

The next step is renting a room. A heated basement, preferably located in a passageway, is quite suitable. You will need a room in any case, even if you decide organize a street collection point for aluminum cans- you will still need a place where you will sort and temporarily store the aluminum cans you have accepted. The room should be warm and have lighting. For work, you will need a scale designed to weigh at least 50 kg. It is also worth stocking up on bags for aluminum cans handed over to the collection point. It will be necessary to find and build relationships with large non-ferrous metal collection points. This is where you will hand over aluminum cans from your collection point.

No special advertising is required for your aluminum can collection point, rumors about such sources of livelihood among your customers spread instantly. Who is your contingent? Homeless people, drinking citizens and just ordinary old pensioners. You can stick the simplest flyers-ads somewhere near the garbage containers, the haunted places where the bulk of your contingent gathers. However, among your clients there will be quite sane people, for example, elderly people with a modest pension. Normal sign with working hours collection point for aluminum cans and acceptance prices will allow this category to find its way to your collection point.

To organize a collection point for cans, you will also need some small starting amount for the purchase and settlement with the deliverers. On average, 1 can is bought for 20 kopecks. (the weight of a standard 0.5 l jar is 15 g, jars with a volume of 0.33 - 13 g), on average there are about 70 cans per 1 kg, but keep in mind that there will be not 70 thousand of them in a ton, but somewhere about 64 thousand, the rest of the weight will eat the inevitable garbage in the form of leftover beer, bulls, labels, etc. A standard 50 kg sugar bag holds 4 kg of crumpled cans.

And one more trick: bags with cans must be checked with a magnet, remember - aluminum is not magnetized. For what? It's simple - our people are cunning, they may well put stuffing from heavier, but less expensive iron inside the bag. Anyway, when you recycle cans, you will definitely be checked with a magnet, iron will be found - either the whole batch is wrapped, or they will accept it at the price of ferrous metal, and this is completely different money.

Let's calculate the costs:
basement rent - 3000 rubles per month,
salary of one receiver - 8000 rubles per month,
electronic scales - 3000 rubles,
plus the rental of a car to deliver the raw materials you have accepted to the processing point.

Payback. In a good location during the summer cans collection point collects up to 3 tons of aluminum cans. In many cities there are specialized plants for processing aluminum scrap, they buy 1 ton of cans at an average of 30,000 rubles. If there is no such enterprise in your locality, it does not matter. There are large non-ferrous metal collection points everywhere that will buy aluminum cans from you in bulk.