A long-troubled bauxite refinery along the Mississippi River near Gramercy hit with a compliance order and threat of fines earlier this year is now facing a lawsuit in federal court from a regional ...

Environmentalists, and the EU, have long voiced concern over a toxic waste site on the banks of the Danube in northern Hungary. So why do most locals living nearby quietly tolerate it? László Nagy ...

Nobody expects a red tide of toxic, highly alkaline sludge to come rushing through one’s neighborhood. But that’s exactly what happened on Oct. 4 in Hungary, when a reservoir containing pH-13 waste ...

Aluminum production creates a toxic byproduct known as red mud. In an effort to cut down on this waste, researchers have figured out a way to send electric pulses through the mud to purify it and ...

A River Parishes refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste containing arsenic, cadmium, chromium and other toxic heavy metals into ...

Waste slags from the metallurgy industries often contain valuable materials, but in very small concentrations. This means that large areas of valuable land are used to accommodate reservoirs filled ...

Scientists at the University of Glasgow are working to turn a toxic industrial waste product into a material which can be used to treat contaminated water. A team from the University’s School of ...

Researchers have developed effective methods for neutralizing the hazardous, highly alkaline waste from aluminum production, known as red mud, while simultaneously using it to capture and store carbon ...

BURNSIDE — Two months ago, officials with LAlumina LLC, a private startup that hoped to bring the old Ormet alumina complex to profitability, announced continued economic challenges would force them ...

One metal whose growth in the past century has been unsurpassed is aluminium. Its strength and light weight guarantees its demand, especially in transportation where fuel efficiency is paramount. The ...

An economical process with green hydrogen can be used to extract CO2-free iron from the red mud generated in aluminum production. The production of aluminium generates around 180 million tonnes of ...