[slibhb]

The fact also makes you notice that no one is writing articles about how much water smelters use...

[kibwen]

Because we have recycling centers, which reclaim aluminum using 95% less energy than smelting the raw material.

[slibhb]

No, because journalists love writing articles critical of tech companies, some fair some not.

[vasco]

Journalists love writing articles people want to read. People like crapping on tech companies because they look at them everyday in their phones so it rings a bell. The average person rarely thinks of smelters or is confronted with one.

[specialist]

Publishers publish clickbait. Editors and journalists do as they're told.

[pests]

You can't reclaim aluminum without first smelting it from raw.

[kibwen]

But you can then recycle it an unlimited number of times. A large majority of all aluminum in use is recycled.

[pests]

True but chances are our use of aluminum is not static and is always increasing. That new aluminum needs to be smelted at some point.