Want to recycle AND save energy? Think metal!

This great video outlines how metals can be recycled efficiently and truly sustainable compared to most items we recycle.

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! All right? Maybe - maybe not, says scholar Daniel K. Benjamin. Making a new tissue out of a used one wastes resources - hardly a benefit the environment. Melting and casting aluminum cans, though, both saves resources and benefits the environment.