Environment
Aluminium recovery and recycling. Strategy
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Environment
Aluminium recovery and recycling. Strategy

Author : François HERBULOT

Publication date: June 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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7. Environment

7.1 Polluter pays

What is a recycling raw material in general?

It is a metal alloy, more generally a healthy material associated with contaminants:

  • oxides ;

  • other metals ;

  • coatings, pigments and plastic resins ;

  • other materials: plastics, glass ;

  • materials of various origins: earth, stone, biological materials ;

  • traces of contents (packaging).

In short, as far as we're concerned, it's a metal associated with a "pollution ticket".

The recycler, who withdraws the raw materials from the market,...

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