Alcoa Waste Management

• Alcoa encourages aluminum recycling by sponsoring recycling programs, operating the Alcoa Recycling Company, supporting research on recycling and alloy separation, and purchasing large amounts of scrap.  Aluminum produced from recycled metal requires only 5 percent of the energy required to produce the metal from bauxite ore.
  
  
• Alcoa sponsors life-cycle analyses on a number of products, including automotive components, beverage cans, aluminum wheels, and building components, to determine where processes and product designs could be improved.

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