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How recycling cans is better for the environment2
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+Aluminium is made from bauxite in a process called smelting.Mining is expensive and it creates environmental problems.Recycling is a better alternative for mining, because mining harms forests, which affects plants and animals.It helps to reduce the need to mine bauxite. Recycling aluminium consumes only 5% of the energy needed to produce it. Actually, making one can with recycled aluminium saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.It takes more than six weeks before recycled aluminium appears in the shops.In some countries people have to pay extra for each can they buy. If they recycle the can or take it back to a shop, they get this money back. Many places have got special machines where cans may be crushed, and you get a ticket saying how many cans you recycled so you can reclaim the money.In Sweden 92% of cans are recycled.In Britain people sell empty cans for charity. There are many places that buy cans and then recycle them.Because if every can in the UK were recycled, it would raise over £30 million a year.
