What are some of the advantages of recycling metal?

Question

Any kind of metal

Answer 1

Extracting and producing any metal from it's ore is very resource intensive.  The process results in the emissions of various air and water pollutants.  One of these air pollutants is carbon dioxide (CO2), which is likely to cause global warming.  Recycling metals is much less resource intensive, and emits much less CO2.

Answer 2

you get money copper is 2$ a pound alum is 60 cent ect

Answer 3

Think about all of the metal that currently lies in landfills. Say we went treasure hunting for all that metal. We could melt it down and reform it into new cars, buildings, bicycles, etc. all without having to send a bunch of over-worked, under-paid miners to destroy another beautiful mountain side.

Answer 4

It takes less energy to create a new aluminum can than to make an aluminum can from recycled aluminum.

To explain further, the aluminum ore must first be mined, then transported, then processed and then melted and molded into new cans.  The recycled aluminum cans eliminate several of the first steps.

Answer 5

cashew, did you mean to say:

"it takes MORE energy to create a new aluminum can than to make an aluminum can from recycled aluminum"

in your answer above? :)