Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Why do we recycle aluminium?
Aluminium is never found in the free (uncombined) state in nature. It is always chemically combined with other elements. The ore called bauxite is our chief source of the metal. But an enormous amount of electricity is required to obtain the metal from this ore. To conserve energy, aluminium manufacturers try to obtain as much aluminium as they can by recycling used aluminium containers and other scrap. Re-smelting scrap to produce aluminium requires only about 5% of the energy required to make the metal from bauxite.
So it makes good sense to recycle aluminium. Not only do we save energy, we also conserve our reserves of bauxite.
EXPLORE MORE...
Get Help or Give Help.
- Do you have a Science Question?
- Post it here and get the answer.
- Some questions posted by others are not yet answered.
- View those questions and answer them.
Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
K. M Munshi Marg,
Chowpatty, Mumbai - 400 007
email : editor@dimdima.com
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
505, Sane Guruji Marg,
Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034
email : promo@dimdima.com
Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.