How many 330 ml aluminium cans is equivalent to a roll of aluminium foil 30cmx10m (abt 12 inch by 3 feet)?

Question

I am a college student living in a private apartment and I use up lots of aluminium foils to cook and eat. I use aluminium foils as plates because I am too lazy to clean plates. I want to know how environment-unfriendly i am for doing so. How bad am I compared to the guy who keeps on drinking from cans without recycling them?

Answer 1

idk but i sure hope u are recycling all that foil

Answer 2

Are you recycling them?

If so it could be quite interseting as you are not using detergent and water to wash up?

Who knows?

How bad do you feel?

I imagine that it's not great in the big scheme of things as re-using is the best option before re-cycling.

Answer 3

Aluminium foil is less than 0.2mm thick but typically 0.02mm so a piece 300mm x 100mm has a total volume of 3 x 1 x 2 x 10^2 mm^3

that is 600 mm^3

The density of Al is 2700 kg/m^3 so the mass of your foil is 2700 x 600 /10^9 kg

= 0.00162 kg = 1.62 g

Modern aluminium cans weigh  about 15g

I take it you aren't studying either physics or mathematics or you would easily have workd it out!