By Alton Tabereaux, Contributing Editor. Bauxite residue is an insoluble solid waste by-product generated after the digestion of gibbsitic bauxite ore with sodium hydroxide at elevated temperature and pressure in the Bayer process for the extraction of alumina. During the digestion process, aluminum minerals react with caustic soda process liquor to form soluble sodium aluminate […]
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) joined the Aluminum Association, European Aluminium, the Aluminium Association of Canada, and the Australian Aluminium Council, along with numerous aluminum producers, recyclers, rolling mills, can makers, and other industry leaders, in calling for urgent actions to be taken to achieve full circularity of aluminum beverage containers to decarbonize the aluminum […]
A new study, “Aluminium Beverage Can Recycling in United Arab Emirates and Asia Pacific: A Review Of Waste Management Maturity In Six Countries,” on recycling of aluminum cans has identified that 60 million tonnes of CO2e per annum could be saved through effective global recycling of used beverage cans (UBCs) by 2030. The study was commissioned […]
