Hydration is a fundamental need and can be enjoyed though many beverages. Aluminum cans are an efficient way of distributing and storing the produced beverages on a large scale. Each year about 180 Billion cans are produced around the world requiring a large quantity of aluminum, about 3,375 tonnes just for cans. All of this material is usually used a single time, then discarded.
Although aluminum is a highly recyclable material, its degree of purity will gradually decrease and become increasingly more difficult to reuse for the same purpose. With a better understanding of this material flow, it is possible to envision how to introduce a large-scale recycling facility capable of collecting these scraps and other products in order to reintroduce this restored material at a local scale. The strong network of craftsmen would be able to directly benefit from this access to an important construction and prototyping material. The intervention on Sewoon would thus translate this new dynamic to the community by leveraging large scale manufacturing with local impact.