It is one of the critical components for achieving the sustainable development goal together with the efficient use and saving of primary raw material resources and the evaluation of industrial wastes and the protection of the environment. Firstly, the reduction of waste in any technological process indicates that the process efficiency is high. The evaluation of these wastes, together with the reduction of the amount of waste, makes it possible to protect natural resources through the use of alternative secondary raw materials.
Due to the obligation to ensure energy continuity in metallurgical enterprises, the use of renewable energy sources is limited, even impossible. In other words, the main energy source is of fossil fuel origin. On the other hand, with secondary metal production, the energy used in primary production is stored in a sense and minimizes the amount of energy needed in later production cycles. On the other hand, ore resources are limited resources. The mining industry has to process ores of lower tenor every day, and the metallurgical industry has to produce primary metals from these sources. These expensive processes and taxes caused by environmental damage lead to an increase in metal prices. This increase can be compensated by the use of secondary metals. In the future, secondary metal production will further increase its importance by providing new raw material options due to the environmental benefits provided by this industry and low energy consumption. While it takes 100-500 years for a discarded used aluminum beverage can to disappear in nature, only 60 days are enough for it to enter the recycling cycle.
Secondary Aluminum-Energy Relationship While about 168 000 MJ of energy is spent from alumina refining to the casting stage for the production of 1 ton of primary aluminum (80% of it in electrolysis), this figure is only 11 200 MJ, including scrap preparation and curuf processing for secondary aluminum production. That is, it is about 5-6% of primary production.
While there are 9.8 tons of Tuesday CO2 and equivalent emissions per ton of aluminum in the primary production process, this value is only 0.60 tons for secondary aluminum production.
The environmental benefits that can be provided by secondary aluminum production are listed below:
- The fact that the energy required for secondary aluminum production is about 5% of the amount of energy required for primary production also means that greenhouse gas emissions generated in the energy production process will decrease at the same rate.< / li>
- With the re-evaluation, the use of both material resources and energy resources will decrease, and a cleaner and wealthier world will be left to future generations Jul.< / li>
- Thanks to 1 ton of Tuesday's remanufactured aluminum material, as much as 9.2 tons of CO2 equivalent is released into the atmosphere less.< / li>
- Today, approximately 80 000 000 tons less greenhouse gas emissions are made annually by the participation of ”old aluminum scraps" in the re-production. This figure is equal to the amount of greenhouse gases produced by 15 million passenger cars.< / li>
- Harmful wastes generated in bauxite mining and alumina production processes and high water usage are not generated in the secondary process.< / li>
- The destruction of nature made for waste material storage and the environmental problems caused by it are reduced. For example, it takes 500 years for aluminum soft drink or aerosol cans to disappear into nature.< / li>
Recycling of scrap aluminum through the use of renewable energy sources intended within the scope of the project; will be provided with pilot application points, which is a methodology aimed at continuously increasing and improving efficiency. An exemplary study will be provided to the world with the nature-friendly project. The fact that Aluminum, which is among the Decaying natural resources, can be recycled endlessly is both an economic and environmental contribution. In this project, which is prepared based on technological and ecological infrastructure in aluminum recycling, the use of renewable energy sources instead of non-renewable energy sources aims to minimize the consumption of natural resources and aims at environmentally friendly production without harming the nature ecosystem in the most appropriate way.
In our facility, the scrap is made ready for melting by going through physical processes. Thus, by sending metal scrap to smelting factories, it brings it back to the national economy and the environment.
Our company provides scrap recycling with the Scrap Metal Processing License granted by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization within the framework of the “Communiqué on the Recovery of Certain Non-Hazardous Wastes”.
We closely follow the World Standards, organize the entire process in our facility accordingly and constantly improve it. with the cooperation with 27 countries and our 3850M2 storage area with a capacity of 12000 tons, we have been carrying out our works domestically and abroad since 2018.
Our company is able to import scrap metal from Free Zones and abroad with the authorization certificate obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. At the same time, consultancy services are provided to companies regarding import.