re: #52 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I only know what happens here: Recyclers are required to pay for aluminum cans. I got 54¢ a pound for one big batch a few years ago. They are not actually remade into ingots—instead there’s a huge mountain in Eastern Washington composed of crushed aluminum cans. Nobody is making new cans out of them, never mind airplanes—but we are giving the aluminum smelters essentially free electricity to smelt fresh aluminum from ore.

This sounded wrong to me, so I googled. Page 14 of a govt report from 2007 () says more than half of aluminum used then was recycled. The energy cost then was 5% of what it costs to smelt from ore. I’m wondering where you read/heard that nobody is making new cans or other aluminum stuff? Serious question, not snark.

Kinda bugs me that y’all are referring to the stacks behind He, Trump as garbage. It’s the thing in front of the stacks that is the garbage.