Recycling: The process of collecting and reprocessing waste materials into new products, reducing landfill volume and resource extraction.
How to apply it: Use recycling to explain how aluminum recycling saves 95% of the energy required to produce aluminum from raw ore.
Course: AP Environmental Science · Unit: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
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