Industry
Aluminium Recycling
The process of collecting, sorting and remelting used aluminium into new metal; it uses roughly 95 percent less energy than producing primary aluminium from bauxite ore, but requires tight alloy separation to preserve the resulting metal's value.
Covered in 2 MetalsCost.com News Intelligence articles, most recently on September 27, 2026.
Coverage
Iron
EU Draft Rules Would Stop European Metal Scrap Going to India From 2027
Non-ferrous scrap is covered too, so aluminium scrap would face the same export limits.
Aluminium
Europe Loses 1.2 Million Tonnes of Aluminium Scrap a Year to Weak Sorting, Novelis Says
Stronger sorting and traceability standards, plus CBAM's current zero-emissions treatment of remelted scrap, create both a technical and financial incentive to keep scrap in Europe rather than exporting it.
