Recycled aluminium cuts CO2 emissions at JLR

This is the claim of Jaguar Land Rover whose REALITY aluminium project is using what it describes as an innovative recycling process to make use of aluminium waste from drinks cans, bottle tops and end-of-life vehicles.

JLR project promises new life for old aluminium

Engineers were able to use the recycled aluminium parts and mix it with a lower amount of primary aluminium to form a new and tested prototype alloy, comparable to the existing Jaguar Land Rover grade and quality.

Aluminium can be melted down and reformed repeatedly without losing quality. Post-consumer recycled aluminium appears often as drinks cans, aerosols, foil food trays and bottle tops but is not widely used for applications such as automotive manufacturing. According to Jaguar Land Rover, nearly 75 per cent of all aluminium produced in the USA and EU is still in use today while the creation of recycled aluminium uses around 90 per cent less energy than raw material production.