0h58m22s18f Unlike Paper Recycling, Steel Recycling Driven by Economics - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 24/04/2017

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ How's your water use?
We're evaporatively cooling.

We use about 2.5 million gallons a day. So we're pretty big water users.

Which is about a tenth of what the paper mills use.

But you can get far more recycles on steel or aluminum than you could out of paper or plastic.

Oh, sure. Yeah, actually it is debatable whether paper recycling is  even that great a pursuit. In some cases it is mandated, but-

This is one where economics drive the recycling.

But the steel industry is probably one of the better models of recycling.

Aluminum too would be. There's less given over to waste.

If we could make energy cheap enough there's a lot of other products you could make economic to recycle.

Absolutely.