Global Aluminium Recycling Brochure - Transport

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8. The Future: Aluminium
by 2020
The growing markets for aluminium are supplied
by both primary and recycled metal sources. The
increasing demand for aluminium and the long lifetime
of many products mean that, for the foreseeable
future, the overall volume of primary metal will
continue to be substantially greater than the volume
of recycled metal. The aluminium mass flow model
enables the industry to calculate global recycling
rates, including a recycling input rate 32% in 2007.
Modelling predicts that this figure will stay constant
in the future.
The global inventory of aluminium in use has grown
from 90 million tonnes in 1970 to about 600 million
tonnes today and is forecast to reach more than 1
billion tonnes in 2020. This is creating a vast material
and energy storage bank for future recycling use.
The building sector is forecasted to represent up to
35%, transport 28% and engineering plus cable 27%
of the 2020 inventory in use.