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If you are anything like the people of HowStuffWorks, then chances are good you've already gone through several of them today, you are likely to end another time drawing a blank I speak of aluminum omnipresent sometimes touted as a success story of recycling aluminum cans not only the most frequently recycled product, but also the most cost-effective and energy efficient.
The recycling of aluminum, which is manufactured from bauxite ore, is a closed loop process that there is no new materials are introduced along Cans way infinitely recyclable aluminum can be recycled repeatedly without degrading because of this efficiency, more than two thirds of all the aluminum ever produced is still used aluminum source now so the next time you are feeling lazy and the recycling bin appears so much more than the trash, you may want to think about the following.
aluminum recycling prevents the need for ore mine to create a new aluminum It takes 4 tons of ore to create 1 tonne of aluminum.
Recycling aluminum cans takes 95 percent less energy than creating new.
The energy required to produce a box 20 could produce recycled cans.
The energy saved by recycling one aluminum can could power a 100 watt light bulb for four hours or a TV for three hours Can Russell sources Institute manufacturers.
All recyclables deserve bragging rights as aluminum does, but some materials approach.
Steel another recyclable metal produced mainly extracted from ore requires 60 percent less energy to recycle than it does to make a further source Economist Recycling one ton of steel prevents extraction 2500 pounds 1.134 kg of iron ore, 635 kg 1,400 pounds of coal and 54 kg 120 lbs source Scottsdale limestone.
Plastic usually downcycled meaning it is recycled into something less valuable as non-woven fabric or wood, but requires 70 percent less energy to recycle than to produce virgin material source economist and while some people argue that plastic recycling is a lost cause because of its tendency to weaken during reprocessing, new materials production of plastic requires messy business of mining for oil and gas Although natural plastic can not be recycled once, that the art of a time that can be saved from the oil and natural gas.
Glass Glass recycling is 33 percent more energy efficient and cheaper than starting fresh and not involve economist downcycling source.
The benefits of recycling other materials are not as clear On the next page, we'll follow some electronic waste electronic waste to China and see why printer cartridges and paper recycling are not always a good thing.
Aluminum can be recycled into more boxes Some companies are reshaping the metal recycled into innovative products and fashionable in the tabs Brazil, women crocheted 100 percent recycled aluminum in brand handbags unique for American society Escama Not only Escama doing good business selling unique handbags in markets worldwide, but women are seven to 15 times the minimum wage in Brazil another US company, Emeco, designed elegant but bright, chair made of 80 percent recycled aluminum chair called the 20-06 welded to hand the chair can support up to 45,000 psi yet weighs only 5 5 pounds Source 2 5 kg aluminum now .
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