With the electricity required to make 1 box of aluminum you could:
• listen to the radio for 4 hours
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watch television for 3 hours
• switch on a 60-Watt lamp for 5 hours
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operate a refrigerator for 3 hours.
For each aluminum box produced: Need 0.3 Kwh of electricity.
By recycling 1.000kilos of aluminium : 4,57 tons of Bauxite are not extracted.
By recycling 1.000kilos of aluminium : 700 kilos of oil , are saved .