Sustainability overview
Aluminium is one of the world’s most abundant elements, it is almost infinitely recyclable and rightly considered amongst the most sustainable of the world’s resources. Extraction is carried out in an environmentally considerate manner with old mining sites being restored. Smelting is generally carried out using renewable hydroelectric power. The amount of embodied CO2 is low compared to other construction materials, and unlike many other materials where the energy used to create the material is lost, the energy used to smelt aluminium is effectively invested and 95% of it will be reused when recycling.