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Environmental aspects
 


The aluminium industry is committed to reduce the environmental impact of its production processes and that of its products.

The trend in environmental policies today addresses the issue of sustainable use of resources. It means “to ensure that the consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources, and the associated impacts,
do not exceed the carrying capacity of the environment, and to achieve a de-coupling of resource use from economic growth through significantly improved resource efficiency, dematerialisation of the economy and waste prevention”.

The strength of aluminium is its life cycle. A major objective of the European aluminium industry is to continue to improve environmental performance through all stages of the life cycle of aluminium through:


Natural resource extraction : Bauxite
Energy and reduction in energy use
Waste and emissions management
The use phase: Transport, Packaging Building
Recovery and recycling
 
 
 

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