| Show Ou Horn Norn c of enty f Plenty lenty Little Known Facts About Americas America's Resources RECYCLING FOR MINERALS Many Americans are finding junk can be much too precious precious precious pre pre- cious to throw throwaway away While exploration and development development de de- of new resources are arc clearly necessary and experts experts exports ex ex- ports say ought to be accelerated accelerated crated recycling is a viable way to increase the availability availability availability avail avail- ability of the minerals this country needs I l ALUMINUM RECYCLED in one year came to about million pounds Millions Millions Millions Mil Mil- lions of pounds of other metals were also recycled Recycling has been prat practiced for many years most obviously in in the case of sm-h sm precious metals as us gold and silver But J J. J Allen Overton ton Jr president of the American Mining Congress points out that scrap iron copper from automobile wiring and radiators radia- radia tois tors lead from batteries and lind other metals are also re re- cycled With the emergence of a heightened conservation ethic by the general public recycling of ot aluminum cans has ha risen nen sharply New technologies might one day permit an increase in recycling At present however however however how how- ever the significant labor involved involved in involved in- in in collecting and transporting discarded products products prod prod- and reclaiming their separate separate separate sep sep- sep sep- arate metallic contents content means mean that this can be only a partial answer to total needs Even as a Ii partial answer however it involved recycling some million pounds of iron and steel 1 a scrap er p million pounds oC of copper cupper million pounds pound of me zinc million poun pounds of aluminum aluminum aluminum alu alu- alu- alu minum and pounds of lead in 1975 1976 J al alone alan n 1 |
