Use the Accompanying Figure to Answer the Following Question

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