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by CJ is a pixie on May 23rd, 2008
i had to write an 8 pade report on a topic of my choice, so i chose recycling. this is the part about cans:
60% of materials thrown away COULD be recycled, but are not. why is this? take aluminum cans for example. some people are lazy and think "oh its just one can i'm throwing away" but what they dont realize is that there are thousands of cans thrown away, and millions of gallons of water and gasoline used up to produce new aluminum when recycled aluminum could have been used. metals, especially aluminum, are easily recycled and be recycled over and over again. this pays off in great pollution and energy conservation. producing new aluminum from bauxite ore uses 20 times as much energy as it takes to recycle aluminum cans. recycling one can saves 6 ounces of gasoline. in 2007, americans recycled enough aluminum cans to save 15 million barrels of oil.
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