From its status as the symbol of roadside trash in the 1970s, the humble aluminum can has risen to become the single most valuable commodity in the national recycling stream. While aluminum cans ...

At the end of the day, Muktar sleeps in a bed that is right next to the furnace. Hamed is one of thousands of Indians who live in Dharavi, one of the largest slum towns in South Asia, and make money ...

The new deposit system for plastic bottles and aluminum cans has been in place in Austria since the beginning of the year.

Beer didn't always come with a fizzy popped tab. Thanks to a few innovative thinkers and drinkers, this state was the first to get on board with beer cans.

but Americans throw out millions of tons of it every year — mainly aluminum cans and other post-consumer scrap. At the same time, US can-recycling rates are falling drastically behind several ...

A new nanofiltration process developed at MIT can curb the hazardous waste generated from aluminum production.