A logo featuring a three-dimensional, crisscrossing wireframe globe on the left. To the right, the words "INTERNATIONAL ALUMINIUM INSTITUTE" are displayed, with "INTERNATIONAL" in gray and "ALUMINIUM INSTITUTE" in turquoise.
CONTACT
A logo featuring a three-dimensional, crisscrossing wireframe globe on the left. To the right, the words "INTERNATIONAL ALUMINIUM INSTITUTE" are displayed, with "INTERNATIONAL" in gray and "ALUMINIUM INSTITUTE" in turquoise.

Bauxite Residue

IAI-Bauxite Residue
IAI-Bauxite Reuse
IAI-Mining

Bauxite Residue: An Introduction Factsheet

Published in

2022

As part of the aluminium industry’s waste-not-want-not approach to circularity – the IAI has produced two waste perception factsheets on bauxite residue and spent pot lining.

The Bauxite Residue Factsheet is laid out in a simple and clear format to help inform the intended audiences on the importance and availability of this by-product. It also provides information on how bauxite residue is produced, its availability and its use in key applications.

You can download the Factsheet in English and Chinese.

To download the Spent Pot Lining Factsheet – please click here.

Download attachments from this resource.

Bauxite residue - Factsheet
Bauxite residue - Factsheet [Chinese]

Related Resources

ALL

Can-to-Can Recycling: Mettalurgy, Processing and Circularity

Aluminium beverage cans are a true symbol of circularity, endlessly recyclable without losing quality. Our latest fact sheet explores how alloy design, process control and advanced recycling turn used cans back into new ones again and again. By combining precise metallurgy with efficient scrap sorting and delacquering, metal recovery improves ...

Published in

No data was found

Global Beverage Container Recycling Dataset

Eunomia was commissioned by the Global Beverage Can Circularity Alliance (GBCCA) to calculate the collected for recycling and recycling rates for aluminium cans, PET bottles, and glass bottles across global markets.  Conducted in 2025 as the first in a three-year series, the research captured data representing 90% of the global market ...

Published in

IAI-Industry&Sustainability
IAI-Recycling

Reference document on how to treat scrap flows in carbon footprint calculations for aluminium products

In 2022, the IAI published Guidelines on Transparency that state that when reporting the cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of products that contain scrap there should be full transparency on the methodology used for the carbon footprint calculation. This reference document, summarising three potential approaches, should serve aluminium producers to disclose the methodology they ...

Published in