Vice President of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Wang Gong Min in the 12th on "The First China Forum on recycled aluminum industry chain development" that the overall efficiency of the secondary aluminum industry in terms of resource, energy, the environment is obvious, to develop the secondary aluminum industry is the fundamental way to achieve energy savings of China's aluminum industry.
Aluminum scrap recycling process eliminates the need for complicated mining, and avoid the primary aluminum production process produces a large number of red mud, it will not damage the ecological environment. Energy consumption, renewable aluminum main fuel used is coal, heavy oil and natural gas, almost no electricity as renewable energy, aluminum smelting enterprises, comprehensive energy consumption of recycled aluminum only 5% of aluminum. On waste emissions, limited wastewater by precipitation can be reused after a simple, fully achieve zero emissions. In 2006 China's secondary aluminum production reached 2.35 million tons, compared with the original mineral resources development and utilization, recycled aluminum industry in China in 2006 is equivalent to saving 19.27 million tons of standard coal and 160 million tons of water, to reduce sulfur dioxide and solid waste reached 14.1 million tons and 68 million tons.
Wang Gong Min believes that recycled aluminum industry is energy-saving, environmental protection and labor-intensive enterprises, in line with the direction of development of circular economy, does not belong to the "two high" class national key industry regulation. The state should be treated differently recycled aluminum and aluminum, recycled aluminum industry to give support and encouragement, not as a high-energy consumption industries and subject to policy restrictions. China's electrolytic aluminum integrated AC power consumption level has reached the international advanced level, a further decline in the space is very small, and therefore develop secondary aluminum industry will be China's aluminum industry to achieve energy saving key structural measures.
