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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The first SENNEBOGEN 821 E-Series delivered to the French market has made a solid impression, handling up to 480 tonnes of scrap metal daily. The compact materials handling machine is owned by Eurometal, and is working at the company’s Meyzieu scrapyard near Lyon. The unit was supplied by...
Recycling companies in Lagos State currently source at least N4 million empty aluminium drink cans every month from scavengers and waste resource merchants. A waste resource merchant, who chooses to be called Jaco, says there are about 10 companies in Lagos that buy empty aluminium drink cans and...
The Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP) embraces the Commission’s ambition to phase out landfilling of recyclable and recoverable waste and urges the decision makers to promote quality recycling. Waste-to-energy is complementary to quality recycling, helping to achieve a clean...
The European Aluminium Association (EAA) has welcomed the European Commission’s efforts to strengthen the EU waste policy framework as an important step forward in Europe’s transition to a circular economy. In this context it is also calling for achievable recycling targets and accurate...
The European Commission today (July 2) formally adopted proposals for the future of waste and recycling targets within Europe, as part of measures towards achieving a circular economy. Key among the proposals is an increased target for Member States to recycle or reuse 70% of municipal waste by...
A report by Dr. Frank Hefner, an economist with the College of Charleston Department of Economics and Finance, finds that the recycling industry in South Carolina brings in $13 billion to the state's economy each year - double the estimated impact of recycling in 2006. The economic impact report...
According to the City of Sydney, around 15,000 bottles and cans across Australia are thrown into landfill waste or littered every hour, instead of being recycled -- about 58 percent of all recyclable material annually. To help minimise this waste, it is trialling Envirobank "reverse vending...
More Scottish companies are recycling after the introduction of new regulations, according to a report. Since the start of the year businesses have been required to separate all waste metal, plastic and card for recycling. The Every Can Counts programme, which focuses on recycling aluminium, said...
The Arizona Department of Transportation is implementing a recycling program at its rest areas. The state has already installed recycling receptacles at three of its rest areas and plans to bring in its other sites soon. “With each site visit I make to our rest areas, I see how necessary recycling...
LRS Consultancy (LRS), a London-based research firm, in partnership with the environmental services company Enval, the waste management and recycling firm SITA UK, the consumer products companies Nestlé UK & Ireland and Coca-Cola Enterprises and the retailer Tesco UK, is undertaking a study that...
Sims Metal Management Ltd., with corporate headquarters in Sydney and New York City, has announced restructuring initiatives that it says are designed to streamline Sims Recycling Solutions, its electronics recycling business. The review has determined that certain loss-making assets are outside of...
The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has provided funding for a project to scope out viable approaches for collecting and recycling flexible packaging materials containing aluminium, such as toothpaste tubes and pet food sachets. Funded by Defra’s Action...
Arkansas State University Mountain Home recently hosted a free electronic waste recycling roundup for the first time in the Twin Lakes Area, where members of the community were invited to drop off old computers, TVs, printers and other unwanted electronic items. Over the course of the two-day...
This week, customers were invited to tour the Deeside plant and see its latest investments. Through installing a new sawing and continuous homogenizing line, the Deeside recycling plant now can offer seven-meter-long extrusion ingots, the standard length of such products in Europe. With the ability...
Aluminum Corporation of China will invest 57 billion yuan ($9.25 billion) in Shanxi before 2020 to build an advanced aluminum recycling industry base, the company said on its website. In accordance with its cooperation framework agreement with the provincial government of Shanxi, the company will...
Recycle Week 2014 kicks off today (June 16) with a number of events taking place up and down the UK aimed at encouraging people to cut waste and recycle more. The 11th annual recycling awareness week runs until Sunday June 22 and will this year operate under the theme ‘Recycling at Home and Away’...
Discarded electronics are poised to provide a growing source of secondary commodities within India, according to a recently published report by TechSci Research called India E-Waste Management Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2019. Noida, India-based TechSci Research says India’s e-scrap market “is...
Burlingame, California, has broken ground on an electronics recycling facility in Osceola, Arkansas, which aims to extract precious metals from obsolete electronics collected throughout the region. The company says it expects the plant to be operational by the end of 2015, processing 15 million...
