Sortera has developed an AI-guided system to sort scrap aluminum by specific grades. The startup is building a second sorting ...

The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of products wrapped in colourful packaging specifically designed to catch your eye and convince you to buy them. But that packaging's story doesn't end once it's ...

Aluminum is one of the most recycled materials used today. But while aluminum cans are easy to throw in the curbside bin, aluminum foil can be a bit more challenging to recycle. It depends on how ...

The global competition for critical minerals has reached the least glamorous part of the metallic supply chain.

You've eaten your takeout burrito and have a ball of sour cream-specked aluminum foil left over. Does it go in the blue bin or the trash? Reading time 5 minutes Aluminum cans are the quintessential ...

Pioneering technologies are maximising the potential of this durable and extensively usable - and reusable - material.

European Commission says it is concerned rising outflows could leave Europe short of a critical input for its decarbonization ...

According to researchers at Queen's University Belfast, around 20,000 metric tons of aluminum foil is tossed away in the UK each year – enough to stretch to the Moon and back. This prompted chemistry ...

The European Commission plans to restrict EU exports of scrap aluminium, to stop the metal flooding out of the bloc and ...