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Aluminum recycling still makes economic sense, right?
by titanomachy 7y ago
Aluminum recycling still makes economic sense, right?
- overcast 7y agoMetals I'm sure make sense, at least the valuable ones. I was referring to only plastic recycling.
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- anticensor 7y agoAluminium, copper and 1st grade wood-free paper.
- samatman 7y agoSteel as well, but in most places in the US you don't have to bin it separately, since it's magnetic and valuable, hence easy to remove from the waste stream.
- jiveturkey 7y agoyes. it is evident by the fact that recycling centers still pay for aluminum.
- lm28469 7y agoDepends on how you do it. Burning electronics in African open dumps to melt their metal parts is recycling and make economical sense. It doesn't mean it's a particularly good idea though.
- Lev1a 7y agoAlso glass bottles.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoPretty much anything that needs to come out of the ground in a form far less concentrated (aka "ore") than the form in which it is useful is economically recyclable because the product provides a more concentrated source of raw material for making into new things than the natural deposits in the earth do. That's basically a long winded way of saying most metals are cheaper to recycle than to mine new.
- redbeard0x0a 7y agoIf I recall correctly, its like 5% of the energy to use aluminum scrap vs. ore.