Use the Accompanying Figure to Answer the Following Question

question 26

Multiple Choice

Use the accompanying figure to answer the following question
-The relationship between recycling, economics, and energy consumption is demonstrated in the case of aluminum, where .

• A)it costs more than 10 times as much to produce items from recycled aluminum than from virgin ore
• B)the U.S. failure to recycle aluminum has caused energy to be lost in mining new ore
• C)new cheap mining technologies and huge newly discovered aluminum deposits have made recycling unprofitable
• D)all of the metal recycling industries in the United States went bankrupt by 2009
• E)it requires over 20 times more energy to mine and extract aluminum from bauxite ore than from recycled materials