Appliances are environmentally friendly because of steel.
In fact, all 99 pounds of steel in the average major appliance can be recycled to make new steel products. In fact, in 1998 alone, nearly 40 million appliances were recycled. That's enough to build 75 new baseball stadiums. Overall, the steel recycling rate is 65 percent. And that's higher than the recycling rate for glass, aluminum or plastic.