28 October 2008 Recycling energy savings Recycling, glass, metal, plastic and paper - energy savings If you visit a lot of environmental forums, no doubt you would have come across people claiming that recycling isn’t all that effective - that it can take as much energy to recycle materials as it does to extract and produce them in the first place. I don’t claim to have any special knowledge or education, but here’s some information I researched on the energy savings involved with various common materials from what I believe to be fairly good sources. For more information on this article, click this link For the full news article and to be taken to the website, click here |