Aluminium scrap: This week, China's aluminium scrap market price centre edged up alongside primary aluminium. As of September 10, SMM A00 aluminium prices closed at RMB 24,560 per tonne, up RMB 210 per tonne from RMB 24,350 per tonne last Thursday. Domestic aluminium scrap prices followed with...
From October 6 to 8, 2026, STEINERT will provide a comprehensive insight into the future of aluminium sorting. Closing the aluminium loop requires both high throughput and melt-ready quality. As demand for high-grade recycled aluminium continues to grow, STEINERT is advancing its sorting systems on...
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Shanghai Metals Market data showed operating rates across Chinese secondary aluminium producers averaged 57.21 per cent in December, down 9.54 percentage points year-on-year (YoY). Compared to November, it increased 0.07 percentage point as more export orders and pre-holiday stockpiling offset the...
The East of England Co-op has launched a new campaign with Ipswich Borough Council to encourage more recycling in Ipswich, England. East of England Co-op said the retailer will run an in-store trial to increase awareness of items that can and can’t be recycled, and will introduce recycling points...
The Exchange Hotel has reportedly introduced an aluminium can recycling service as a way of raising money for Rotary in Bathurst. The news came after the manager of the hotel Marty Russell revealed about the initiative. During the school holidays, the recycling bin can fill very quickly, but this...
Auckland Council will reportedly provide waste barges in the Hauraki Gulf this summer to help boaties dispose their waste and keep Waitematā Harbour clean and beautiful. Since summer is the time when Hauraki Gulf islands receive a maximum footfall of tourists, the council encourages day visitors to...
South Korea, one of the leading aluminium scrap importers in the world, imports aluminium scrap and recycles them for making aluminium alloys. The country’s estimated import volume registered a growth of 42855 tonnes or 6 per cent year-on-year in 2018. South Korea’s automotive sector is a major...
Mexico’s aluminium industry has been growing steadily at a 13 per cent annual rate since the year 2011. The country produces 1.6 per cent of the world’s global production and depends highly on imports and recycling of aluminium products as it has limited resources of bauxite. For the same reason,...
TETRA Pak (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Nestle Milo UHT came together to announce that the CAREton project 2019 consumer recycling campaign will be collaborating with the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ). The project expects to recycle 35 million drink packs in 2019. Inside of Tetra Pak aseptic cartons,...
According to a report, Queenslanders have collected millions of dollars in just two months by recycling 102 million cans and bottles through the state’s container refund scheme. Queensland’s container refund scheme for most plastic drink containers, beer bottles and aluminium cans started from...
According to a report, Wistaston Scout Group (35 th South West Cheshire) has installed new aluminium can collection bins in Wistaton to raise money for the group. The news bins have been set up on the car part at Wistaston Memorial Hall on Church Lane, outside Wistonia stores on Kings Drive and...
The torches for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will use recycled aluminium in their making. The aluminium will be sourced from a temporary housing in Japan's Fukushima prefecture which was stricken by an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear disaster in 2011, local media said on Tuesday. More than 10,000...
Aluminium scraps import by India increased by 22.3 per cent during April-October period of financial year 2018-2019, according to data from the Aluminium Association of India (AAI). India imported 7, 73,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap during April-October, from 6,32, 000 tonnes during the same period...
According an update from the environment ministry of China, the country will restrict imports of scrap steel and aluminium from July 1, 2019. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment statement said that the ministry will move scrap steel and aluminium from an unrestricted import list of solid waste...
Powys householders are being encouraged by the county council to recycle during the festive season. Cllr Phyl Davies, Cabinet Member for Waste and Recycling, said: “With so much happening at Christmas, you might be tempted to throw all of your waste in the rubbish bin but please don’t! “We want...
In the U.S. recycling used to be extremely profitable business while aiding while doing its part to the environment. However, local recyclers are facing a number of challenges while recycling holiday packaging materials. Local recyclers are struggling to cope with increasing financial pressures...
Sanjay Mehta, President of Material Recycling. Association of India (MRAI) has opposed the proposed increase in import duty on primary aluminium and aluminium scrap from 7.5 per cent and 2.5 per cent to 10 per cent. In a letter addressed to the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu,...
Aluminium recycling is part of Europe’s wider Aluminium industry, a sector of the economy that generates almost €40 billion revenue a year and directly or indirectly employs more than one million people. Aluminium beverage cans contribute to a large extent to the overall estimated recycling result...
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, the U.S. exports of aluminium scrap, which is not included in the government’s consumption statistics, stood at 164,000 tonnes in October 2018, up 5% from October 2017 total of 156,000 tonnes. Month on month,...
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) has launched a new platform to drive the industry’s engagement in carton recycling across Europe. The platform aims to encourage recycling of beverage cartons, including the non-paper components, such as polymers and aluminium. The...
