Aluminum is a metal that, in a relatively short time, managed to impress constructors and designers with its outstanding technical, aesthetic and other positive properties, so that its field of application is wider than that of other metals.
Pure aluminum is not widely used due to poor mechanical and casting properties.
Aluminum is used in many products, including aluminum cans, aluminum foil, semi-rigid packages for food packaging, and flexible packages such as foil in cigarette and candy packaging.
Types of aluminum waste for recycling:
„Soft“ scrap aluminum from products obtained by plastic deformation during drawing, pressing and rolling processes.
- waste (painted and unpainted) in the form of profiles and sheets without plastic admixtures,
- waste (dyed and undyed) in the form of profiles with thermal break,
- waste Al coolers
- waste Al cans
- waste Al foil
- waste in the form of wire or rope, etc.
„Hard“ scrap aluminum from cast products, namely:
- waste Al from internal combustion engine parts (cleaned of other impurities and oil),
- waste Al from vehicle parts, machines and constructions without iron and zinc elements,
- scrap aluminum rims
- scrap Al in the form of pieces based on aluminum or its alloys.
Aluminum recycling is a very important process for environmental protection, aluminum recycling can save a considerable amount of energy. Aluminum recycling means the process by which aluminum waste is processed into a basic raw material that is returned to the production of other aluminum products.
The price of aluminum depends on the current world price of the metal on the London Stock Exchange.