Advantages and Disadvantages of recycling metals

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  • Created by: JustTara
  • Created on: 22-02-14 14:29

Advantages and Disadvantages of recycling metals

Advantages

  • Recycling helps to limit the amount of metals that must be produced. This will end with less garbage in landfills because it's being reused.
  • Adds jobs to the economy
  • Slows the consuming of natural resources
  • Promotes scientific advancements in recyclable and biodegradable materials.
  • Process of recycling metals usually creates (much) less pollutants and greenhouse gases than extracting that metal from its ore.
  • Uses less energy therefore less fossil fuels are being burnt.

Disadvantages

  • The collection and sorting of domestic materials to be recycled can be expensive, time consuming and require energy.

Evaluation

There are currently more advantages than disadvantages around recycling metals.

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