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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Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) has not received positive reactions from the UK Government, and there have been prevailing talks of ending it. Reports confirm that Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has already instigated the UK Government to rethink the launch of this flagship recycling drive....
The residents of Sibu (a city in Malaysia) were invited to sell their recyclable used products at the 3R Recycling Programme held in Swan Square on March 12 last Sunday. The programme, since its inception, has helped collect recyclable items like paper, cardboard, tin or aluminium cans from the...
Novelis is about to get documented in an Emmy Award-winning series by John Holden called EARTH that airs on Fox Business Network. The docu-series releasing on March 19 - at 5 p.m. ET, will showcase how Novelis produces low-carbon aluminium, propagating a green economy. The story of this particular...
AniMeals No-kill Adoption Center and Animal Food Bank based in Missoula is known for providing shelter and other necessary help to animals. The organisation has passed its long-running aluminium recycling programme to Recycling Works. AniMeals has been collecting aluminium cans for the past 14...
Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), in collaboration with their logistics service partner, Biffa, will introduce 140 new job opportunities in Motherwell. Biffa will invest almost £80 million to formulate an infrastructure suitable for rallying out the scheme. This will largely help collect,...
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador assists a local social business in the environmental and recycling sector to create a method for composting and recycling liquid waste. Beer cans made of aluminium that were discarded or were not meant to be sold on the open market are increasingly being...
The recycled aluminium sector has experienced vast evolutions this week, with German car brand Audi creating a 'MaterialLoop' in collaboration with 15 associates from the supply, recycling and research depots to impose a closed raw material (e.g. aluminium) circulating loop along the automobile...
Source Global, the innovative company that generates atmospheric drinking water, has acquired the spring water brand Proud Source Water. Proud Source, a certified B Corp, sells naturally alkaline water in recyclable aluminium bottles at retailers and food service locations across the United States....
SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited Company has filed for patent approval at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This SMX application can inevitably provide transparency and algorithm for some of the biggest industrial consumers of aluminium alloy materials and items. SMX technology...
The Aluminum Packaging Recycling Organization (Alupro) held a nationwide competition, launched as a part of Alupro's Bin-Fluencers educational campaign, designed to assist students in learning more about recycling. It challenged students from all around the UK to create an eye-catching recycling...
The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) has joined hands with different local organisations to help recycle more aluminium beverage cans at the Recycle Dat event organised by Mardi Gras 2023. Thousands of aluminium beverage cans were sold for money that CMI matched and donated to charities or locals...
Rio de Janeiro’s samba school parade has made history with its record-breaking accomplishment in recycling aluminium beverage cans. The Guinness Book of World Records enlisted this as the World’s biggest aluminium beverage can recycling programme. During the Carnival that extended from 17th to 20th...
JinkoSolar has discovered a methodology through which it can recycle almost 92 per cent of the materials already in use in a readymade solar panel taken from the market. Since solar panels contain a considerable ratio of glass, aluminium and copper, this can be marked as a remarkable advancement....
German luxury automobile giant Audi has constituted a 'MaterialLoop' in collaboration with 15 associates from the supply, recycling and research sectors. This project will allow Audi to introduce a closed raw material circulating loop along the automobile industry. Audi is ready to collect the...
Glencore, one of the world's largest globally diversified natural resource companies, has reportedly entered into a partnership with scrap brokerage Zeb Metals to advance its aluminium scrap and dross recycling operation at a new plant in South Carolina, USA. The plant is scheduled to commence...
According to the US Geological Survey, India imported 102,900 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the United States during the fourth quarter of 2022, which reflected a sequential downfall of 20.11 per cent from 128,800 million tonnes in Q3 2022. In total, India imported 231,700 million tonnes of...
Alutrade, the UK’s largest independent aluminium recycling company and extrusion specialist, is the first company in the world to reap the benefits of the sophisticated new sensor-based sorting solution. The new X-TRACT™, TOMRA’s most advanced x-ray metals sorting unit, has enabled Alutrade to...
The Emirates Environmental Group (EEG), in its first major recycling campaign for 2023, collected 7,357 kg of aluminium cans. This year, the campaign “Can Collection Day” was held on Sunday, February 26, under the theme “Say: Yes to Can Recycling, No to Carbon Emissions”. Mrs Habiba Al Mar’ashi,...
