Recycling Metals

Many metals can be recycled by melting them down and making them into something new.

Advantages:

• Natural reserves of metal ores last longer.
• Less mining, meaning less land destruction, noise produced and dust pollution.
• Less pollution produced.
• Less energy used to recycle, more used to extract.
• Less metal wasted and left in landfill sites.

Disadvantages:

• Costly - Transporting and sorting what's recyclable costs losts of money.
• Sometimes recycling requires more energy than extraction.
• Transporting metals causes pollution.