1. General

1.1 Aluminium recycling benefits

• Old-fashioned common sense

  Common sense accepts disposability less and less, even if the concept persists, and is even developing, for small objects; today, we conserve objects less, but recycle them. Aluminum is easily recyclable, and this is an advantage for this metal that is becoming increasingly well known.

• A regulatory constraint

  For all objects produced in large quantities, no matter how complex, it becomes imperative for manufacturers and materials suppliers to ensure recovery and recycling under acceptable conditions and with a sufficiently high recovery rate, which can be imposed by directives or decrees....