In the quest for a more sustainable future, one material stands out for its infinite recyclability and a rapidly growing market to support it: aluminum. The recycled aluminum packaging market is at the forefront of the circular economy, offering a closed-loop solution that significantly reduces environmental impact. Unlike plastics, which often lose quality with each recycling cycle, aluminum can be recycled repeatedly without any degradation in its properties. This makes it an incredibly valuable material for beverages, food, and other products, where it is used to create cans, foil, and various containers.

The primary driver for this market is the stark environmental difference between using recycled aluminum and producing it from virgin ore. Recycling aluminum requires up to 95% less energy than mining and smelting new material, leading to a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. This energy efficiency is a powerful incentive for both manufacturers and consumers. Brands are increasingly…

Low-dose radiation, when applied multiple times to the whole body during several weeks, has been observed to produce a cancer therapeutic effect. The survival of cancer patients treated with low-dose radiation is similar to (Chaffey et al., 1976; Hoppe et al., 1981) or better than (Choi et al., 1979; Pollycove, 2007) the survival of patients treated with chemotherapy (see the Figures below). Since cancer patients treated with chemotherapy have better survival compared to untreated cancer patients (Huchcroft and Snodgrass, 1993), it is clear that chemotherapy has a cancer therapeutic effect. Hence, low-dose radiation applied repeatedly also has a cancer therapeutic effect and not a carcinogenic effect.

Note: Difference between the two curves is not significant.

There is also additional evidence which shows the cancer therapeutic effect of repeated applications of low-dose radiation (10 cGy or 15 cGy) to the whole body or half of the body (Mendenhall et al., 1989;…

In this study (Davis et al., 1989), the all cancer mortality rate was reported for TB patients who were exposed to fluoroscopic radiation and those who were not exposed to the radiation.

Note: SMR = Standardized Mortality Ratio

Based on the data, for the fluoroscopically exposed patients, males and females combined, the observed cancer deaths were 424 and the expected cancer deaths were 404, resulting in a SMR of 1.05.

For the unexposed patients, the observed cancer deaths were 620 whereas the expected cancer deaths were 483, resulting in a SMR of 1.28

Hence the SMR for fluoroscopied patients can be shown to be: