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In the News: DOE Researchers Develop Method for Low-cost Optical Sorting of Aluminum Scrap
August 6, 2025
Source: greencarcongress.com
A team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Argonne National Laboratory has developed a method to color-code scrap aluminum pieces by alloy family and also demonstrated low-cost optical sorting of cast from wrought pieces to upgrade the scrap stream. A paper on their work is published in the journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling.