Aluminum’s Long Tail: Once only a dangerous waste, Red Mud is finding new purpose.
9 min readOct 21, 2021
Aluminum (or Aluminium for everyone else in the world) is a wonderful metal that’s infinitely recyclable. One aluminum soda can weighs about 15 grams (about 0.5 oz), with something like 66 cans or so in a kilogram (around 32 cans in a pound). This aluminum is refined from an ore called Bauxite that is mined from the ground, from which aluminum oxide…
