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  2. Aluminium recycling - Wikipedia

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    Aluminium recycling is the process in which secondary commercial aluminium is created from scrap or other forms of end-of-life or otherwise unusable aluminium. [1] It involves re-melting the metal, which is cheaper and more energy-efficient than the production of virgin aluminium by electrolysis of alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) refined from raw bauxite ...

  3. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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    Recycling aluminium saves 96% of the energy cost of processing new aluminium, it also helps divert significant amounts of waste from landfills. [11] This is because the temperature necessary for melting recycled, nearly pure, aluminium is 600 °C, while to extract mined aluminium from its ore requires 900 °C.

  4. Aluminum Can Prices: Are They Still Worth Collecting?

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    Recycling aluminum cans is a brilliant way to reduce a consumer’s carbon footprint while also earning a little bit of money on the side.

  5. Aluminum industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The aluminum industry in the United States in 2023 produced 860 thousand metric tons of aluminum from refined metal ore (primary production), at six smelters. In addition, US industry recycled 3.4 million tons of aluminum (so-called secondary production aluminum). [ 1 ]

  6. You Should Never Recycle Your Pizza Box. Here's Why - AOL

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    The recycling system in the U.S. is far from perfect, and recycling is often used as a scapegoat to justify overconsumption. ... are made from 100% aluminum and can be easily recycled with other ...

  7. Alcoa to Recycle Aluminum Directly From Boeing - AOL

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    Why run around collecting aluminum cans from consumers if you can get one big consumer to return the aluminum to you directly? That seems to be the thinking at Alcoa this week, as the aluminum ...

  8. Aluminium dross recycling - Wikipedia

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    Aluminium recycling is where pure aluminium products (previously used in another form) are re-melted into aluminium ingots and then re-used to new aluminium products. [9] While aluminium dross recycling is where the dross, a byproduct of the smelting process in the creation of aluminium from bauxite, can be mechanically recycled thus separating ...

  9. Scrap - Wikipedia

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    Recycled scrap is a raw material feedstock for nearly 60% of steel made in the US, almost 50% of the copper and copper alloys produced in the US, more than 75% of the US paper industry's needs, and for 50% of US aluminum. Recycled scrap helps keep air and water cleaner by removing potentially hazardous materials and keeping them out of landfills.