The report details Novelis» efforts to increase its recycling capacity and the recycled content of its products to 80 per cent by 2020 with a focus on innovation and technology to accelerate the use of recycledaluminum.
While many of us make efforts to recyclealuminum and glass, you may be surprised to find out over 50 % of landfills are construction waste and building materials.
While recycledaluminum uses up about 5 % of the energy it takes to make something out of new aluminum (counting all the effort it takes from the mine to the manufacturing plant), reprocessing all that aluminum is very energy intensive.