Talk:Aluminium recycling

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Can someone please add information about how much aluminum is NOT recycled in the United States each year. I'm looking for a statistic, and believe that sadly we still seem to be failing to recycle the vast majority of our aluminum.

thanks...

31% of new aluminum comes from recycled scrap aluminum. The main reason this is not higher (educated guess) is because it's easier to make new aluminium then it's to find, collect, identify, and recover large amounts of scrap aluminium. IIRC most of the scrap aluminium that's recycled now comes from pre-consumer factory waste. The good news though is that once the aluminium is made it can sit in a scrap yard for 100 years and still be as good as new when finally recycled... Because most aluminum alloys do not rust or corrode... You could be drinking out of an recycled aluminium can that was made using 200 year old scrap... In fact it might be better to make as much new aluminium as possible right now, because in 25 or 50 years energy costs could double or triple. I'd like to know how much scrap we have stock pied. --98.214.11.170 (talk) 07:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I have an issue where there's a slight contradiction in the article. In the advantages section of the article, it states that it is cheaper to recycle than to produce new aluminum. In the disadvantages, it states that it is cheaper to produce new than to recycle. Which is it?--Userjack6880 (talk) 22:45, 3 June 2008 (UTC)