Composition for delacquering aluminum cans during recycling

A composition for the removal of lacquer from aluminum can stock consisting of a mixture of about 10-90% of a polyalkylene glycol polymer and about 90-10% of an aqueous solution containing about 1.0-3.0% of a dicarboxylic acid,

• wherein the polyalkylene glycol polymer is of the following formula:
• ##STR3## where R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a straight chain hydrocarbon having about 2-20 carbon atoms, polyhydroxy substituted hydrocarbons having about 2-20 carbon atoms, aryl hydrocarbons having about 6-20 carbon atoms, and alkyl aryl hydrocarbons having about 7-30 carbon atoms, where a may range from 0 to about 75 and b may range between 1 and 100, and where b is equal to or greater than a;
• and
• wherein the dicarboxylic acid is of the formula:
• ##STR4## where R.sub.1 is a covalent bond or an alkylene group of 1-9 carbon atoms.