How much energy is saved by recycling glass?
Recycling one ton of glass saves 1.2 tons of new raw materials. It saves the equivalent of 860 kilowatt hours of electricity or 18% of the energy needed to form new glass. Motor Oil How is recovered motor oil processed into a useful product? Used motor oil is re-refined by removing the contaminated additives and blending the pure base lube stock with a new additive package. It takes 42 gallons of virgin crude oil to make 2.5 quarts of refined oil, but it only takes one gallon of used oil to make the same 2.5 quarts. What products are made from recycled motor oil? Recycled motor oil is used to lighten bunker fuel, the heavy residue left from virgin oil refining, for use in ships; boilers, burned in asphalt plants and cement and lime kilns for processing heat and re-refined into motor oil. How much energy is saved by recycling motor oil? All of the oil saved by recycling is an energy savings. Oil doesn’t “go bad,” it just gets dirty. Re-refining cleans it up. This option cuts our depende
