Estimating Recycled Content in Aluminum Products—Boundary Matters
摘要
Improving recycled content is an important lever in aluminum productionAluminum production both for reducing energy consumptionEnergy consumption and lowering product carbonCarbon footprints. As suppliers and customers work towards meeting their sustainabilitySustainability goals, consistent and accurate reporting of the recycled content of purchased goods is increasingly becoming an expectation across the aluminumAluminum value chain. As a leading producer of aluminumAluminum products, Arconic continues to actively engage customers and industry groups to drive alignment around the methodology for calculating recycled content. This report provides perspectives around recycled content calculation methodologies and highlights key activities in Arconic to improve scrapScrap usage and increase recycled content.