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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United States major aluminium scrap commodities prices showed a flat trend on Thursday, while the futures prices at London Metal Exchange settled down 0.7% at $1,846 a ton. As per Scrap Register Price Index, major aluminium scrap commodities like 356 auto wheels, 5052 alum clip, 6061 alum...
The European Commission has decided to scrap its circular economy package which targeted 70% recycling by 2030 for a more ambitious plan to be released later this year according wide-spread reports. However, it might not be the best approach for UK to blindly follow the EU regulations as the waste...
The nonferrous market in Europe may be finding some solid footing, which could be good news for the overall health of most nonferrous metals markets there. One sticking point continues to be China, which continues to send mixed signals on its economy. For aluminium, after a modest price rally, the...
A new brochure from the Washington, D.C.-based American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) portrays what the group calls the sustainability benefits of different beverage package types and the materials from which these containers are produced. The brochure, titled Beverage...
The growing demand from Nampak follows the conversion of beverage can body stock in South Africa from steel to aluminium. “In the rest of the world aluminium makes up 90% of all beverage packaging, so we appreciate that Nampak has decided to convert their plants. While the conversion has taken...
Aluminium and steel fulfil the criteria for ‘permanent materials’ as defined in a study by the Swiss consultancy Carbotech AG. The study confirms that the current approach of classifying materials as renewable or non-renewable is insufficient for the development of good practices in sustainable...
Indian aluminium scrap prices on Scrap Register Price Index remained flat on Wednesday, while aluminium futures prices at India's Multi Commodity Exchange traded down. As per Scrap Register Price Index, major copper scrap commodities like aluminium accessories scrap, aluminium ingots, aluminium rod...
The U.S. aluminum industry purchased an estimated 770 million pounds of aluminum scrap during February 2015, according to aluminum recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, up 5.7 percent over the February 2014 total of 728 million. USGS estimates that...
Alunorf, the world’s largest aluminium plant for hot rolling and remelting, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of operation with an extensive revamp. Alunorf, in Neuss, Germany, is a 50/50 joint venture owned by Hydro and Novelis. Rolled aluminium processed by Alunorf is used throughout Europe and...
At its Annual Convention and Exposition held last month in Vancouver, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) released two new videos aimed at providing the public more information on the value and impact of the recycling industry. The videos, focused on plastics and tire recycling,...
Local schools and individuals collected more than 1.1 million aluminum tabs in the Pull Tab Pandemonium fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mid-Missouri. The tabs will be sold to New World Recycling, which has drop-off sites in Columbia and Jefferson City. The price of aluminum...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry™, announced today the launch of three school recycling curriculum pilots in Staten Island, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; and Kalamazoo, Michigan. These pilots combine standards-based lessons that teach the...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), Washington, D.C., has recognized two individuals who took over their family businesses and “ushered in an era of innovation and success for the entire recycling industry,” according to the association. During ISRI’s 2015 annual convention,...
With the help of Collect-a-Can, Bisant Matsi has gone from waste collector to a prominent and successful recycling business owner in Burgersfort, Mpumalanga, inspiring his local community by showing them the value that exists in waste. Nineteen years ago, Matsi, started his recycling operation with...
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, and Atlanta brewery Second Self Beer Company today announced the launch of Second Self beer in aluminum cans, made from Novelis evercan™ – the world's first and only certified high-recycled content aluminum can sheet. The news was...
Laying the foundation stone for the integrated recycling line for used beverage cans (UBC) at its Neuss plant in Germany, Hydro today marked another milestone in this EUR 45 million project. The recycling line, covering an area of some 20,000 square meters, will double our existing annual recycling...
A Rathdowney councillor has appealed to the council to be the first local authority to run a recycling collection pilot scheme using a special collection lorry which could call to estates or particular area’s around the county. As last week’s meeting of the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick area...
If you have any soda or beer cans lying around, Saturday's the day to recycle them. Right now recycling one pound of cans will fetch about 30-cents. But on Saturday, Moscow Recycling is offering 45-cents per pound. It only takes about 30 cans to make a pound. And every little bit helps because...
