Recycling

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Recycling

Advantages

  • Profitable - Material can be resold
  • Reduces waste - Landfill space is running out
  • Reduces landfill
  • Saves energy - I.e. Avoids the procedure of extraction again
  • Uses for fewer resources - I.e. Less coal and iron.

Disadvantages

  • Often different mixtures of many metals, sorting this out can become pricey.
  • Purifying is expensive and uses more electricity than electrolysis requires
  • People rather not recycle, nowadays people are lazy

Evaluation

Recycling definitely proves to be essential and beneficial, it saves having to go through the electrolysis procedure again and metals as an example retain their original properties after being recycled. 

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