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Transportation recycling

Transportation recycling is the method of recycling any means of transportation once they reached the end of their usable lives

1 Aircraft
2 Vehicle
3 Boat
4 Bicycle
5 See also

AircraftEdit

recycling the boeing 747 can save 125 tons of iron ore, 50 tons of coal, 139/10 tons of limestone, a 23,250 cubic meter lake (40 of water), enough energy to light a 60 watt light bulb for 130,000/219 years, a CFL for 226,951/2,920 years, power over 493/20 cars for a year, 1,464,200 KWh of energy (74 of energy), a 2,445/4 cubic meter container of oil, 24,850,000,000 Btu's of energy (74 of energy), 1,400 cubic yards of landfill space, the equivalent of a 4,995/8 cubic meter tank of gasoline, 329/2 tons of red mud, 292,840/7 metric tons of toxic lead, 4,383/10 tons of bauxite, 51 tons of petroleum coke, 483/10 tons of soda ash, 327/20 tons of pitch, 145 tons of co2, 81/20 tons of air pollution (reduced by 86), 789/20 tons of solid waste, Reduce water pollution by 76, enough oil to run the average car for 2,445,000 miles or circle the globe almost 182,560,000 times, a 4,890,000,000 cubic meter lake from being polluted, and keep 40 tons of airborne mercury, 360,000,000 tons of cyanide out of landfills, $175,704.00 in energy, $930,000.00 in water, $149,100.00 in btu energy

recycling one aircraft could save 1,800 tons of special alloys, and 600 tons of technical parts, the equivalent of a 374,625/2 cubic meter tank of gasoline, 49,350 tons of red mud, a 174,825 cubic meter container of oil, 300,000 cubic yards of landfill space, 420,000,000 kWh of energy, 7,128,000,000,000 Btu’s of energy, 131,490 tons of bauxite, 15,300 tons of petroleum coke, 14,490 tons of soda ash, 4,905 tons of pitch, 3,570 tons of limestone, 43,500 tons of co2, 12,000,000 metric tons of toxic lead, 1,215 tons of air pollution, 11,835 tons of solid waste, enough energy to power over 7,395 cars for a year, a CFL for 1,627,500/73 years, 2,138,400,000/19 homes for a year, enough oil to run the average car for 699,300,000 miles or circle the globe almost 52,214,400,000 times, 58,275 tons of green house gases, a 1,398,600,000,000 cubic meter lake from being polluted, a 1,260,000 cubic meter lake every year, $50,400,000.00 in energy, $42,768,000.00 in btu energy

VehicleEdit

Recycling one car could save 5/4 tons of iron ore, 100 stones of coal and 120 pounds of limestone, 13/14 tons of steel, a 11,727/80 cubic meter lake, $5,863.50

(13/14 tons of steel could save 65/56 tons of iron ore, 13/28 tons of coal, 260/7 pounds of limestone, 169,689/350,000 tons of co2, a 6,045/28 cubic meter lake (13/35 of water), enough energy to light a 60 watt light bulb for 8,450/1,533 years, a CFL for 129,363/4,088,000 years, 4,173/7 KWh of energy (481/700 Of energy), a 741/2,800 cubic meter container of oil, 70,850,000/7 Btu's of energy (481/700 Of energy), 26/7 Cubic yards of landfill space, 4,173/245 metric tons of toxic lead, reduce air pollution by 559/700, water pollution by 247/350, enough water to fill 403/4,750 olympic sized swimming pools, enough oil to run the average car for 7,410/7 miles or circle the globe almost 79,040 times, 832 olympic sized swimming pools from being contaminated, 741/28 tons of green house gases)

BoatEdit

In China, the 'eleventh five-year' period, ship-breaking will save 7,250,000 tons of ore, at least 18,450,000 tons of iron ore, 2,520,000 tons of coal, 11,840,000 tons of water , 1,180,00 tons of limestone, nearly 81,000,000 tons of capacity, 7,690,000 tons of greenhouse gases, 210,116,050 kwh of energy, 14,088,080 gallons of gasoline, 704,404/5 tons of co2, a 12,606,963/20 cubic meter lake, enough energy to power one car to travel 307,604,392 miles, $25,213,926.00.

recycling one cruise ship the size of the Allure of the Sea could save 271,425/4 tons of iron ore, 54,285/2 tons of coal, 10,857/10 tons of limestone, a 25,242,525/2 cubic meter lake (21,714 of water), enough energy to light a 60 watt light bulb for 70,570,500/219 years, a CFL for 10,570,705/5,714 years, 34,850,970 KWh of energy (401,709/10 Of energy), 4,125,660 Gallons of oil, 3,094,245/2 tons of green house gases, 591,706,500,000 Btu's of energy (401,709/10 of energy), 217,140 cubic yards of landfill space, reduce air pollution by 466,851/10, water pollution by 206,283/5, enough oil to run the average car for 61,884,900 miles or circle the globe almost 4,620,739,200 times, a 123,769,800,000 cubic meter lake from being polluted, a 44,191,006/5,043 cubic meter tank of gasoline, 3,485,097/800,000 tons of mercury a year, 293,139 tons of waste, 995,742 metric tons of toxic lead, $4,182,116.40 in energy, $504,850,500.00 in water, $3,550,239.00 in btu energy

BicycleEdit

recycling one bicycle could save enough energy to run a TV/computer for 335/28 weeks, and one home for 134/175 weeks, a 469/16,000 cubic meter container of oil, 469/97,800 tons of metal, enough oil to run the average car for 469/4 miles or circle the globe almost 26,264/3 times, a 234,500 cubic meter lake from being polluted, 469/160 tons of green house gases, 107,401/2,000,000 tons of co2, 8,040,000/31 kwh of energy, enough energy to power a CFL for 1,005/73 years, 1,608,000/217 metric tons of toxic lead, 469/15 acres of soil from being polluted, over $5.00

(469/97,800 tons of metal could save 469/78,240 tons of iron ore, 469/195,600 tons of coal, 8,103/12,156,178 tons of limestone, 145,390/489 gallons of water (469/244,500 of water), and enough energy to light a 60 watt light bulb for 6,097/214,182 years, 37,520,000/489 light bulbs each year, 582,732,500/489 Btu's of energy, 3,283/48,900 cubic yards of landfill space, the equivalent of 52,059/6,520 gallons of gasoline, 7,973/3,260,000 tons of petroleum coke, reduce water pollution by 8,911/2,445,000, and keep 1,876/489 pounds of airborne mercury, 2,814,000/163 tons of cyanide out of landfills, 88,641/978,000 tons of waste, over $1,900.00)