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Recycling Industry
Some of the information in this chapter will be out of date before you read it. The
recycling industry is constantly changing, and the number of facilities processing
aluminum scrap or dross grows or shrinks with time in different locations due to
several factors. As a result, some recyclers counted in this chapter are now defunct,
and new ones have begun operations since this was written.
Secondary aluminum is a commodity material, and the driving forces that inu-
ence other commodity processors also inuence the aluminum recycling industry.
Most of these forces are rationalizing the industry, resulting in fewer but larger ...