The first thing to know is that what’s accepted in your yellow-lidded kerbside bin depends on where you live.
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There’s lots of copper in the ground, but demand is already outstripping usable supply – and the shortfall is likely to get worse.
Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today are different.
A recent Canadian innovation that uses aluminum as a fuel could provide new opportunities for growth and diversification away from the U.S.
Trump says he will slap 25% tariffs on all foreign steel and aluminium imports to the US. The Albanese government says it’s been prepared for such a move.
Two major critical minerals projects in Queensland and South Australia will receive $400 million in federal government loans to to deliver Australia’s first high-purity alumina processing facility.
Simple economic modelling shows the mining industry would benefit from a carbon tax.
Building renewable energy infrastructure involves mining for materials such as lithium, graphite and cobalt. If not done responsibly, that could cause huge environmental damage.
Eminent economist Ross Garnaut says if climate action fails, he fears the consequences ‘would be beyond contemporary Australia’. But zero-emissions iron and aluminium could be the way forward.
China, which once processed much of the world’s scrap, has slashed imports of “foreign garbage.” What can the US do to step up recycling at home?
Fixes for small pieces of massive problems show that overarching crises may be less hopeless than they appear.
Trump has started a trade war with China and much of the world. Here’s what you need to know.
If the US were to stop dumping these valuable metals in landfills and to cease exporting them as cheap scrap, its imports could fall, and there would be less of these metals being made from scratch.
The Trump administration recently imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on foreign steel and aluminum – including from the EU, Canada and Mexico, the three biggest markets for American goods.
President Trump says ‘trade wars are good,’ but history tells a very different story.
The president’s tariffs on steel and China mirror the misguided trade policies that helped precipitate the Great Depression.
On March 1, Donald Trump imposed a series of steel and aluminum tariffs. To understand their potential impact, it’s instructive to look at what happened after George W. Bush enacted similar measures in 2002.
Canada rushed to counter a deadly lung disease afflicting gold miners in the early 20th century. The “quick fix” cure that was invented is a symbol of the lurch towards global industrialization.
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