Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a TV set for three hours. Amazing, huh? Source: Modern Marvels (The History Channel)

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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%26#039;t recycled will end up as landfill.
LANDFILL!
I hope you%26#039;re not ignorant of what this means.

yeah wow that is amazing

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?

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

I%26#039;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%26#039;m seeing no benefit whatsoever, and it%26#039;s a pain in the **** to recycle. I%26#039;m done separating, sorting, rinsing, peeling off labels, and all the rest of the extra work it takes to %26quot;go green%26quot; (which, btw, I think is about the stupidest and most overused term of the decade). As long as we%26#039;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%26#039;m done wasting my time trying to make a difference. I might just go buy a Hummer tomorrow too.

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.