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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Four big, blue “Cans for Kids” bins in Merrimack are collectors for donated aluminum cans earmarked for recycling by the Exchange Club of Merrimack. The local chapter is part of a national, nonprofit group supporting programs aimed at child abuse prevention, crime prevention, services to senior...
Starting today, Alcoa Foundation and DoSomething.org, the largest U.S. organization for teens and social change, will run the biggest youth-led aluminum can recycling drive in the country, targeting high school students. The goal of the drive is to activate a minimum of 40,000 young people across...
Novelis has opened an aluminium recycling and casting center in South Korea as part of a $400m expansion project. The Yeongju recycling center is the firm’s first major step in the plan to increase recycling capacity to 2.1 million tons by 2015. The facility will have an annual capacity of 265,000...
Novelis, the global leader in aluminum recycling and rolling, today announced the opening of an aluminum recycling and casting center at its Yeongju, South Korea, facility. The new operation is the largest aluminum beverage can recycling center in Asia. The Yeongju recycling center is part of a...
Alcoa AA +0.33% today recognized the Top North American Scrap Suppliers for 2012. This marks the eighth consecutive year that Alcoa's Scrap purchasing group has honored the best suppliers in terms of safety, quality, volume, breadth of supply to multiple locations, and delivery performance....
Ruben Stewart eased his Silverado pickup into the Mission Grove Plaza parking lot in Riverside to dump his empty Aquafina bottles and soda cans. It’s a recycling ritual he performs every few months at the rePLANET kiosk behind Ralphs. After recycling specialist Abel Estevez weighed the contents of...
Aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. ( AA ) announced the signing of a tentative long-term power contract with Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for its Intalco Works aluminum smelter in Ferndale, Washington. The contract is expected to be finalized by the end of the year and will expire in September...
Foil laminate packaging recycling has taken a major step forward as a site has been secured to build the world's first commercial-scale plant for recovering this material. Enval has already piloted technology capable of recycling flexible laminates and is looking to scale this up with its first...
Litter crusader Adrian "Can Man" Ablett is to have his work featured on TV. Environmentalist, Adrian, 39, of Fosse Road North, Leicester, recently hit a target of recycling 50,000 aluminium cans and has since added another 1,292 to that. TV company Landmark Films discovered Adrian's website when...
LaTonalteca manager Luis Juarez said the restaurant gives many bottled drinks to their customers, but they do not go through as many as other Main Street bars and restaurants in a given weekend. “We only go through around 24 to 36 bottles on a typical night, but that’s because we are mostly a...
UNC prides itself on being environmentally friendly. Residence and dining halls both promote green initiatives through recycling programs. However, Greek organizations are lagging behind when it comes to sustainability. Greek organizations — particularly those with houses — ought to work to improve...
As a leading rolled aluminum products provider, Atlanta-based Novelis is thirsting for more aluminum scrap. By 2020, the company would like scrap to make up 80 percent of its raw material, said Silverio Colalancia, director of recycling for Novelis North America. Colalancia addressed attendees of...
A Missouri home football game attracts thousands of tailgaters. These large crowds leave behind a lot of bottles, aluminum cans and trash. the day after a game the cleanup begins. A group of University of Missouri students take a closer look at what's being recycled and what's getting thrown away....
Aluminium industry leaders and former partners Alcoa and Hindalco Industries’ subsidiary Novelis are now competing strongly to collect and recycle the 92.5 billion aluminium beverage cans made in the USA annually, according to the Wall Street Journal. Novelis, which ended the partnership on August...
According to an official report by Jeddah Municipality that was shared with Saudi Gazette, on average, Jeddah residents generate 5,000 tons of waste per month, but during Ramadan and Haj the number reaches as high as 7,500 tons. Jeddah alone generates two million tons of waste each year, which...
The Alcoa Foundation, Alcoa's charitable branch, has announced plans to invest US$2 million in the Action to Accelerate Recycling (AAR) initiative in the USA. The objective is to improve domestic recycling rates and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 850 metric tons. The AAR is all about...
Alcoa is the inaugural winner of the LEAP award for recycling leadership given by the Southeast Recycling Development Council (SERDC), an organization dedicated to promoting sustainable recycling in the Southeast U.S. The award recognizes corporate leadership in the drive to increase recycling...
Recycling technology developer Enval has secured new premises in the recently designated Enterprise Zone at Alconbury in the Cambridge UK cluster. The buildings will house the world’s first commercial scale plant utilising Enval’s patented process for the recycling of laminated plastic and...
