Category: Circular Economy

Circular Economy Apr 13, 2026

From Scrap to Clean Energy: The Aluminium Reactor Quietly Challenging Hydrogen Convention

For decades, the aluminium recycling industry has operated with an uncomfortable truth at its core: a significant proportion of what is collected never actually gets recycled. Globally, estimates suggest only 10 to 15 per cent of aluminium is genuinely reclaimed. Even within the EU, where collection rates approach 60 per cent, the smelting process introduces […]

Circular Economy Feb 2, 2026

China’s Rising Aluminium Scrap Imports: Following the US Shift from Primary to Secondary Metal?

For decades, aluminium strength was measured in smelters and megawatts. Primary production sat at the centre of industrial growth, with energy availability dictating who could scale and who could not. That equation is now changing. In both China and the United States — the world’s two largest aluminium markets — attention is steadily shifting away […]