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At All Scrap Metal Recycling in Milwaukee, Hector Garcia and his team had their hands full Friday processing cans. "Been around this for a while, so I’m pretty used to it," he said.

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 8, 2022, Section D, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Recycling Clothes as We Do Soda Cans.