New stuff
Friday, January 11th, 2008 by Nigel
OK. Doesn’t look like much… but, as my post from a few days ago said, recycling’s a great thing but you have to get it right. So that’s why I’m really pleased to be able to start stocking recycled aluminium foil. It might not sound like the most glamorous of products but it’s a great example of why recycling is so important.
It’s not just about landfill. Aluminium is made from bauxite which turns up in soil in loads of places all over the world. It’s produced by strip mining. Most signficiantly, to turn bauxite into aluminium you have to melt it, then pass humungous currents of electricity through it to separate the oxygen from the ore.
Recycled aluminium is much, much cleaner. Manufacturing it uses only a tiny 5% of the energy of the non-recycled metal. That’s a massive carbon footprint saving. One site I just looked at estimates that a single recycled drinks can saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
I’m aiming to get a lot more lines like this going in 2008. They may not be as obviously cool-looking as a twig bench, but they’re pretty nice in their own way.
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