Recycling metals
- Created by: hanrobotham
- Created on: 10-05-16 18:59
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- Recycling metals
- Uses less resources
- There's a finite amount of metal in Earth
- Conserves the resources
- Uses less money
- The mining and extracting metals is expensive
- Recycling metal would require less energy therefore saving money
- Uses less energy
- Mining and extracting metals needs a lot of energy
- Mostly comes from burning fossil fuels (which will run out and cause pollution)
- Recycling things like copper and aluminium takes a fraction of the energy
- Mining and extracting metals needs a lot of energy
- Makes less rubbish
- Recycling cuts down the amount of rubbish that goes to landfill
- Landfill takes up space and pollutes surroundings
- Re using metals prevents this
- Economic benefits
- Costs involved in collecting waste material
- Collecting, transporting, sorting and processing it
- If aluminium wasn't recycled then more aluminium ores would have to be mined
- 4 tonnes for every 1 tonne of aluminium you need.
- Ore needs to be transported, extracted, sent to landfill.
- For every 1kg of aluminium cans you recycle, you save:
- 95% of the energy needed. 4kg of aluminium ore, a lot of waste.
- Costs involved in collecting waste material
- Uses less resources
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