
Germany’s aluminium scrap trade showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2026, with exports to the world reaching 616,000 tonnes, up 4.58 per cent from 589,000 tonnes in H1 2025. The increase was even more pronounced against the second half of 2025, with H1 2026 shipments rising 7.50 per cent...
Emirates Global Aluminium has completed its acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in Italy's Eco Green, strengthening its aluminium scrap collection, sorting and recycling network across Europe. Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is expanding its aluminium recycling business in Europe with the completed...
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The Zero Waste Task Force and the Office of Grants Management launched a recycling drive at the Artman Corporation plant in Lower Base on April 1, 2023, which resulted in the redemption of over a million aluminium cans. "Since the inception of the initiative…the Recycling Redemption Initiative has...

Located in the heart of London, Covent Garden, West End's sustainable area, had collaborated for the second time with the non-profit recycling campaign 'Every Can Counts' to develop 'The #EveryCanCounts CANvas' initiative. Launched on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, the event's primary purpose was to...

The Japanese group of companies that manufactures building materials, plumbing fixtures and housing equipment, LIXIL Corporation, has successfully mass-produced billets using 100 per cent recycled aluminium for the first time in Japan at its Oyabe Plant. In FY'22, the company had already acquired a...

Innovating dismantling and automated sorting may improve the quality of secondary raw materials from end-of-life vehicles. A federally funded project called Car2Car brings together auto companies, recyclers, and scientists to answer this question. With sensor technology and spectroscopic techniques...

On April 19, 2023, aluminium alloy ingot ADC12 domestic prices increased by INR 2,000 per tonne to INR 199,000 per tonne. The increased tendency was attributed to the moderate OEM (original equipment manufacturer) transactions. The medium-scale alloy ingot producers (secondary aluminium) saw...

Aluminium Deutschland (AD), a German packaging company, has identified loopholes in the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). The regulation, drafted in 2022, stated that promoting the use of recycled materials in packaging is one of its objectives. However, AD notes that the...

Alupro formally unveiled its " Roadmap to increasing UK aerosol recycling " at this week's BAMA Innovation Day, a long-term strategic plan to spur a significant increase in national capture and recycling rates. Most metal aerosols comprise aluminium (70 per cent) and steel (30 per cent). "Launching...

PepsiCo has launched its brand-new pep+ Partners for Tomorrow platform, which was created to provide services aimed at assisting its clients in reaching their sustainability objectives. The programme will first target American consumers, with hopes to spread it to important international countries...

The Ministry for the Environment's Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund refurbished EcoCentral's Materials Recovery Facility on Parkhouse Road in Sockburn, a service that manages garbage in Christchurch. From Monday, April 17 through Saturday, April 22, A&W Iron and Metal will celebrate Earth Week...

MetalX and Manna Capital comes together to establish a recycled-content aluminium rolling slab factory located in the Great Lakes area. The facility will be built to produce roughly 100,000 tonnes annually of ultra-low carbon aluminium rolling slab with a higher percentage of recycled content that...

On April 11, the 29 members of Alupro wrote a letter to Thérèse Coffey MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, urging her to take immediate action to ensure that a deposit return scheme (DRS) in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland further increases aluminium recycling...

The price of imported aluminium scrap in India fell marginally, influenced by price movements on global commodities exchanges such as the London Metal Exchange (LME) and the Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX). These are recognised to have an impact on both the domestic and international...

A&W Iron and Metal will be commemorating Earth Week for the 25th consecutive year from Monday, April 17 through Saturday, April 22, for which the neighbours in neighbours in Allenton, Slinger, Kewaskum, West Bend, and the rest of Washington County are being invited to drop off the collected...

The Office of the Governor, along with the Bureau of Environmental & Coastal Quality, Office of Planning and Development, Zero Waste Task Force, and the Department of Public Works, has introduced a new recycling initiative that enables locals to recycle their aluminium cans in exchange for money as...

EcoCentral, the Christchurch-based waste management service, has renovated its Materials Recovery Facility on Parkhouse Road, Sockburn, using the Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund received from the Ministry for the Environment. Following a $16.8 million overhaul of the city's recycling centre,...

Economically speaking, one of the most promising resources, ferrous scrap and non-ferrous scrap like aluminium, copper, lead, zinc, tin, brass, etc., recently came under new regulation in Tunisia under the context of the 2023 financial law. Secondary aluminium from recycling allows up to 90 per...

Monseigneur Augustin Caron Elementary School will organise an e-waste & aluminium can recycling event . The event will be held on April 15 and April 22, during which the students will be taught the importance of recycling aluminium cans and electronic waste. The students have been asked to bring...

According to the US Census Bureau data, the United States aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia initiated the new year with an increase of 3,400 tonnes or 12.45 per cent month-on-month. In January 2023, the exports grew to 30,700 tonnes, following a plunge from 33,400 tonnes to 27,300 tonnes in the...