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‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
(www.theguardian.com)
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That's extremely reductionist and inaccurate. Most metals can be recycled easily, not only aluminium.
Aluminium is typically used as is though, while many other metals are used as alloys. I suspect that it makes things much easier when you don't have to worry about composition.
Note that I don't really know anything much about metals or recycling, so I might be completely wrong.
That would result in some shitty products. Aluminium is also mostly used as alloy, pure aluminium is pretty soft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_alloy
Well, that just shows that I shouldn't speak of topics that I don't know anything about. :)
Thanks for the corrections.
Had you not said anything, the guy above would not have sent a Wiki link, and I wouldn't have read it
Best way to get good info on the Internet remains to say something wrong. ;)
The most fun you can have on the Internet is correcting people who are wrong. So, today was a good and fun day. Thanks. ;)
Waste metal is basically always going to be purer and easier to deal with than metal ore, so it's worth recycling nearly anything that it's worth mining the ore for. Aluminium's particularly recyclable because it's expensive to make it from ore, and much less expensive to melt existing aluminium.