Aluminium can be recycled over and over again without loss of properties. The high value of Aluminium scrap is a key incentive and major economic impetus for recycling.

Aluminium recycling benefits present and future generations by conserving energy and other natural resources. It saves up to 95% of the energy required for primary Aluminium production, thereby avoiding corresponding emissions, including greenhouse gases.

Industry continues to recycle, without subsidy, all the Aluminium it can collect from used products, as well as fabrication and manufacturing processes.

The growing markets for Aluminium are supplied by both primary and recycled metal sources. Increasing demand for Aluminium and the long lifetime of many products mean that, for the foreseeable future, the overall volume of primary metal produced from bauxite will continue to be substantially greater than the volume of available recycled metal.

Between 92% and 98% of building Aluminium were found to be collected and recycling in Europe demonstrating aluminum’s pivotal role in the pursuit of full sustainability.