Reuse and recycling

• Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
• Use less
• Use lower amounts of finite resources and reduce damage to the environment
• Copper rich ores in short supply

  Copper is a finite resource

  • bioleaching
  • phytomining plants

  traditionAl Methods are damaging these new methods have smaller impact but are slow
• Recycling metals is important

  Mining takes a lot of energy most comes from buring so sail files

  • recycling metals use less energy and cuts down On land fill
  • melting metals
• Glass can also be recycled

  glass recycling can help sustainability

  • glass bottles reused
  • other glass can’t be reused to are recycled instead
  • crushed and melted to be reshaped