What are the pluses of recycling aluminum cans?

Question

What are the pluses of recycling aluminum cans?

Answer 1

It uses less material, if you use it over and over again (AKA recycling). That way factories don't have to produce the aluminum, which causes pollution. It's like an ever lasting cycle, if you REcycle!

Answer 2

When they are sent to the recycling center, they are pounded,  melted, and molded to make new cans, therefore saving the earth....one tiny can at a time.         : )

Answer 3

there are many pluses to recycling aluminum cans.  

1) can be made back into aluminum cans.  - water bottles cannot because you can't melt them down at a high enough temperature to sterilize them to make other food grade plastics so they have to be made into something else.

2) it is a LOT cheaper to use already refined aluminum than to try to extract it out of the ground, refine it, and make it into the different grades of the metal.  

3) recycling creates jobs!  it's a lot better for the environment and our pocket books!

those are just a few that i can remember off my head but www.treehugger.com has many facts and figures.  go check it out!!

Answer 4

Recycled cans are much easier to reproduce back into cans or other aluminum products.  Since it's already in a useable state, not much further refinement is necessary, making it cheaper to use recycled aluminum cans as a resource than mining the ore and refining it from there.

The same could be said for steel too.  Recycling is much easier.

Answer 5

In addition to obvious environmental benefits (not throwing cans away = less waste,) the price of aluminum is at an all-time high, so you can earn a little money by recycling.

Answer 6

The main benefits of recycling are reducing waste pollution and greenhouse gases in the air.

You can read more benefits here:

http://www.greenstudentu.com/Metal.aspx

Answer 7

less waste, maybe less cost for companies who use aluminum.

Answer 8

It takes enormous amounts of electricity to smelt bauxite to get aluminum.   It's the only way that I know of to smelt bauxite.

Answer 9

Saves lots of energy.  There is a lot of aluminum around, but converting aluminum oxide to aluminum metal requires mucho electricity.  A typical smelter uses half a megawatt for a day to produce a ton of metal.

Answer 10

In Hawaii and other places they are worth a nickel apiece so its good for the people who are to lazy to work, they stroll around and pick up cans.