recycling Flashcards

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recycling

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  • metals are finite resources thus we need to conserve them

- old metal objects are crushed and melted to be reused

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advantages of recycling

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  • helps conserve resources
  • saves costs of extracting metals
  • poses less risk to human health, less pollution
  • less mining—>more land to cope with increasing population
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disadvantages of recycling

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  • effort and time needed to educate the community on proper ways to recycle
  • more costly than extracting metals from their ores
  • causes pollution
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