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>Metal is at least mostly recoverable energy. The footprint of the contents lost is not.

It should be, but how much of that is actually recycled vs. how much ends up in a landfill.



Doesn't matter.

Marginal savings is meaningless if the resulting product is worthless.

On top of that- 99% of people who find a ruptured can with black ooze are trashing it.

And the other 1% are spending more energy/resources to clean a contaminated container than the recycling will save.

(Washing things is surprisingly expensive in terms of energy/resources. Often worth it for reuse, but not recycling.)

Now you're essentially comparing mpg on a trip to no where.


on the contrary, if you can reduce the environmental cost per can by 30%, but the result is that 20% of the cans rupture and go to waste, you have still reduced the total environmental cost

you are likely to go bankrupy tho




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