The relationship between recycling, economics, and energy consumption is demonstrated in the case of aluminum, where ______________.
A) the U.S. failure to recycle aluminum has caused energy to be lost in mining new ore
B) new cheap mining technologies and huge newly discovered aluminum deposits have made recycling unprofitable
C) it costs more than ten times as much to produce items from recycled aluminum than from virgin ore
D) all of the metal recycling industries in the United States went bankrupt by 2009
E) 95% of the energy expended to mine and produce items from virgin ore is saved by recycling
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