Further reading – aluminum
Want to learn more about aluminum and browse our resources? Here are links (videos, articles, studies) to our aluminum resources and more information on the subject.
Yoghurt lids, beverage cans, deodorants – aluminum is everywhere. Mining its raw material, bauxite, destroys vast tracts of forest and other land.
Aluminum is the third most common chemical element in the earth’s crust. Bauxite, the ore used to make aluminum, is generally extracted in open-pit mines.
Asianmetal (2024): Indonesia Aluminium Industry Growth https://www.asianmetal.com/Events_2024/2024ARMS/report/reporten5.pdf
RICS (2021): The 75 per cent problem: aluminium’s carbon footprint https://ww3.rics.org/uk/en/modus/natural-environment/climate-change/the-75-per-cent-problem--aluminium-s-carbon-footprint-.html
World Economic Forum (2020): Aluminium for Climate: Exploring pathways to decarbonize the aluminium industry https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Aluminium_for_Climate_2020.pdf
EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (2016): Risks for human health related to the presence of 3- and 2-monochloropropanediol (MCPD), and their fatty acid esters, and glycidyl fatty acid esters in food.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4426/full (Stand: 01.2017)
London Metal Exchange (2011): Aluminium. Production and consumption.
https://www.lme.com/en-gb/metals/non-ferrous/aluminium/production-and-consumption/ (Stand: 01.2017)
Mandriota et al. (2016): Aluminium chloride promotes tumorigenesis and metastasis in normal murine mammary gland epithelial cells.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.30393/abstract (Stand: 01.2017)
Reuters (2007): Brazil bauxite mine closed after dam burst.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN10315283 (Stand: 01.2017)
Rusal (2013): Red Mud – a resource for the future.
http://www.rusal.ru/en/press-center/articles/3706/ (Stand: 01.2017)
U.S. Geological Survey (2016): Aluminium. Statistics and Information.
https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/aluminum/ (Stand: 01.2017)
U.S. Geological Survey (2012): Bauxite and Aluminia.
https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/bauxite/mcs-2012-bauxi.pdf (Stand: 01.2017)