Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a TV set for three hours. Amazing, huh?

Question

Source: Modern Marvels (The History Channel)

Answer 1

Aluminum melts at 1220° F,  bauxite is an abundent ore and  making a new can from a recycled can takes 5% of the energy  required to make a can from bauxite  ore.

Answer 2

really! wow! thats good  that i recycle then! =]

Answer 3

NO WAY!

Damned, I'm little miss responsible then.  Just right now, I'm earning three hours of TV - right this very moment.

And during football season (why my team is still actually involved, that is) - wow.  Single-handedly, I am responsible for allowing every American football fan to watch their favorite football game.

Just patting myself on the back. . .

Answer 4

I think turning off the TV is a better idea.

Answer 5

yes

we need to do more

Answer 6

I've been recycling aluminum, plastic, cardboard, and everything else that my township asks us to, for five years now. My electricity bill just keeps going up. I'm seeing no benefit whatsoever, and it's a pain in the **** to recycle. I'm done separating, sorting, rinsing, peeling off labels, and all the rest of the extra work it takes to "go green" (which, btw, I think is about the stupidest and most overused term of the decade). As long as we've got people like the president refusing to crack down on the major polluting industries, anything we little people can do is all for naught - and I'm done wasting my time trying to make a difference. I might just go buy a Hummer tomorrow too.

Answer 7

Rubbish is more than just our discarded refuse. It is a guide to our culture, lifestyle, economics and technology. It is also the bane of our existence, for as our society becomes more high-tech and disposable, we face the never-ending problem of what to do with our refuse.

That which isn't recycled will end up as landfill.

LANDFILL!

I hope you're not ignorant of what this means.

Answer 8

Wish we could make everything that energy efficient. TVs in the past were big heat generators, now almost none. Technology is a very good thing. When computers later this year come out with off and on without rebutting, that will save a lot of power plants from being built. We need renewable energy to power these new technologyies

Answer 9

It takes a lot of energy to create new aluminum. It's not found in nature too much, at least in the state that we want it. 5% of the energy used in the united states is used by factories while trying to "produce" aluminum. Not to mention, an aluminum can takes over 100 years to decompose in a landfill.

Answer 10

By golly, we need to keep that TV going!

Answer 11

Actually true. Makes sense when you see what goes into manufacturing raw aluminum. See links below:

Answer 12

yeah wow that is amazing

Answer 13

wow!!

Answer 14

Recycling 7 steel cans saves enough energy to run a 60w bulb for 26 hours.

Canned foods are good for you and are really environmentally friendly too.

'All metal food cans are 100% infinitely recyclable' Phillipa Forester (see link below)

Stock up on Cans!

Prepared pules such as kidney beans are much more energy efficient and cheaper because of the reduced cooking time when done commercially.

No preservatives are added to most canned food. so Canned fruit and vegetables are picked in season and canned immediately the short high temperatures keep nutrition locked in.

Tinned sardines for example contain 4 x the amount as calcium as fresh sardines do.

Canned foods mean less wastage of spoiled fresh foods, fewer trips to the supermarket, more efficient use of space and energy (easily stackable in unrefrigerated lorries) so less CO2 emmisions. The CO2 made by repacking steel in the UK is equivalent to that produced by 240,000 cars.

It is calculated that increasing the number of canned foods in your supermarket trolley could save you at least £50 a year on your shopping bill, plus less trips to the supermarket and less fresh food wasted.

Answer 15

"Please the court, is there a question sometime in our near future?!"

Answer 16

yah it is, but the sad thing about it people just dump it in the trash and it gose to landfills

Answer 17

how in the world can melting (which takes energy) down aluminum (very hard to melt by the way) at a very high temperature and using it in something else like a bike save energy?