The aluminum industry is an important discharger of two PFCs worldwide
tetrafluormethane (CF4) e hexafluorethane (C2F6). The International
Aluminium Institute -IAI- considers it fundamental for the sustainable development
of the industry to reduce these emissions. By doing so, the industry
contributes for the fight against the hothouse gases effect and
for the increase of its own production efficiency.
The IAI established as
guidelines the reduction of the emission of PFCs in the production
of primary aluminum, by investing in modern technologies; it also recommends
to maximize aluminum recycling, a process that issues a much smaller amount
of hothouse gases, if compared to the primary aluminum industry. Another
solution is the encouragement of the use of aluminum in the transportation
industry, to reduce the weight of vehicles, and, therefore, the emission
of gases by cars.
| Brazil PFC
Emissions |
| (kg
CF4/ton of primary aluminum) |
 |
| Source: Primary Producers |
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