Recycling steel and copper from fossil fuel infrastructure to build wind turbines, solar panels, and such could save as much as 1.95 billion metric tons of carbon emissions and $11.69 trillion in costs to society. Using this steel and copper for green energy infrastructure could save nearly 2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions through 2050. Green technologies would get even greener: wind and solar power would see their carbon footprints fall by one-third.
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