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Terms of Use | 使用条款

Version 1.0 · Last updated: 2026-10-30 · Applies to aluminiumrecycling.org

These terms govern your use of this website. By accessing it you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

They are written to describe what this site actually is and what we actually do. Nothing here is boilerplate imported from a template, and nothing here claims a protection we would not rely on.

1. What this site is

AluminiumRecycling is an independent technical research institute for aluminium recycling technology. It publishes documentation, metallurgical analysis, equipment evaluation and regulatory mapping for the primary and secondary aluminium casthouse sectors.

It is not a trade association, a certification body, a standards organisation, a consultancy, or a supplier of equipment or services. It does not sell anything, take payment, or act as an agent for any manufacturer or recycler. Those operational boundaries are set out in full on our About page and govern how everything here should be read.

2. Who may use the site

The site is a technical reference resource intended for engineers, plant managers, environmental compliance officers, researchers and students. It is open to all and requires no account. Registration is disabled, so no accounts exist and none can be created.

You may read, download, print, cite and share material from this site subject to sections 3 to 5 below.

3. Content licence and intellectual property

Our own content — the text, analysis, tables and original diagrams we publish — is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

You may copy, distribute, adapt, translate and build upon our material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, subject to one substantive condition — attribution. That means you must:

  • give appropriate credit — cite “AluminiumRecycling (aluminiumrecycling.org)” with a link to the source page, the name of the article, and where a version or review date is shown, state it;
  • indicate if you made changes — say clearly what you modified, adapted or translated;
  • not imply endorsement — do not present your use in a way that suggests we endorse you, your product, your service or your conclusions. This condition comes from the licence itself, not merely from these terms;
  • link to the licence and keep the licence notice with any material you redistribute.

You need not ask permission, and you need not pay. You may reprint, excerpt, translate, incorporate into a report or presentation, load into a database, or use in training material — commercial or not. This applies to our own expression; it does not transfer any right in third-party material, as set out below.

Why this licence, and what it costs. We chose CC BY 4.0 deliberately, prioritising circulation and citation over control. Attribution is the mechanism by which a reference institute becomes citable, and a licence that permits commercial media, standards bodies and trade publications to reproduce material without negotiation is worth more to that goal than one that does not.

The cost is real and we state it plainly: because CC BY 4.0 permits commercial use, we cannot use copyright to stop an equipment vendor or recycler from repurposing our analysis in sales material. What remains is the no-endorsement condition above — they may use the content, but they may not suggest we approve their product. That is the whole of the protection, and we would rather say so than imply we hold more.

What the licence does not cover. The licence applies to our original expression, not to underlying facts, nor to material we quote from others:

  • Third-party material — patent text, extracts from standards, audit report content, statistical series and figures reproduced from company reports remain the property of their respective owners and are used here under citation or quotation. Do not treat our page as a substitute for obtaining rights from the original source.
  • Third-party names and marks — company names, product names, standard numbers and certification marks appearing on this site belong to their owners. Their appearance is factual reference and implies no endorsement in either direction.
  • Data — factual data such as HS codes, output figures and emission intensities are not subject to copyright in most jurisdictions. Cite the original source rather than us where the origin is named, which on this site it always is.

4. Permitted use

You may, without asking us:

  • read and browse the site;
  • print or download pages for your own reference or internal use;
  • cite us in academic, technical, regulatory or internal work, with attribution and a link;
  • quote short extracts with attribution, as permitted by the licence in section 3;
  • link to any page, at any depth, without prior notice;
  • index the site in a search engine or citation database.

Attribution enables the citation trail that a reference institute depends on, so we ask only that it be accurate: quote what we actually said, and link to the page you took it from.

5. Prohibited use

You may not:

  • republish substantial extracts as your own, or without the attribution the licence requires;
  • use material commercially — in sales material, tenders, paid products, marketing or training sold for a fee — beyond what section 3 permits;
  • present our content in a way that implies endorsement of a product, vendor, service or commercial claim. This is the misuse we are most concerned about, because our readers make purchasing decisions from technical data;
  • use the site to suggest any commercial relationship, agency, certification or approval that does not exist;
  • scrape, mirror or bulk-download the site in a manner that degrades service, or operate an automated crawler that ignores our robots directives;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its host or its administrative functions;
  • post or transmit anything unlawful, defamatory, or infringing another’s rights — though as we accept no user submissions (see section 9), this is largely precautionary;
  • use the site in breach of applicable export control, sanctions or competition law.

Where a use falls outside section 3 and you believe it is legitimate — for example a standards body wishing to reproduce a table — write to us. We are generally willing to grant permission for scholarly, regulatory and educational reuse.

6. Nature of the technical information — read this before relying on it

This is the most important section of these terms.

The material on this site is technical documentation and analysis for information and education. It is compiled from public sources and is subject to the verification standard described in our Editorial Standards, under which every figure is graded as traced, secondary, vendor-sourced or unverified. That grading tells you how much weight a given number can bear — and it is the honest limit of what we promise.

It is not, and must not be treated as, any of the following:
  • Not operating instructions. Nothing here is a procedure, work instruction, permit-to-work or safe system of work. Aluminium dross handling involves molten metal, reactive residues, confined spaces and hazardous waste. Operations must be governed by your own site’s risk assessments, method statements, permits and competent supervision. Where we describe a hazard — for example ammonia release from aluminium nitride hydrolysis — we are describing a property of a material, not instructing anyone how to handle it.
  • Not engineering design or specification. Equipment parameters published here are reported from sources and are not design data. Do not size, specify, purchase or modify equipment on the basis of a figure on this site without confirming it with the manufacturer and a qualified engineer.
  • Not legal advice. We publish regulatory mapping — waste classifications, customs codes, carbon border mechanics — as documentation, not as legal opinion. Classification of a specific material, and liability under a specific regime, depends on jurisdiction, intent and facts we do not have. In particular: the fact that a patent has expired, or is reported here as expired, is not a freedom-to-operate opinion; a patent family may remain in force in another jurisdiction. Take your own legal advice.
  • Not a commercial recommendation. We do not recommend, rank, certify or endorse suppliers. The appearance of a product, process or company in our material is factual reference. Any purchasing decision is yours, on your own evaluation.
  • Not financial, investment or trading advice. Market, trade and price-related material is informational.
  • Not a substitute for the original source. Where a figure matters to a decision, read the primary document we cite. Abstracts and summaries lose the qualifiers that make numbers comparable — a recurring theme of our own analysis.

7. Accuracy, currency and correction

We take care to attribute sources, state the basis of every figure, and mark what we could not verify. Even so:

  • Published data — production volumes, reserve estimates, trade flows, emission intensities, regulatory values such as CBAM default values — changes on the schedule of the body that publishes it. A figure correct on our review date may since have been revised.
  • Hazardous waste classifications, customs codes and standards vary by jurisdiction and are revised. Confirm the position in your own jurisdiction with the competent authority.
  • Equipment configurations described in third-party audit reports are accurate as at the audit date only; certificate periods run three years.

Pages on this site carry a review date where the content is time-sensitive. If you find an error, tell us at research@aluminiumrecycling.org. Substantiated corrections are published and credited, and are not made silently — the process is set out in our Editorial Standards. That process is our commitment on accuracy; we do not additionally warrant that the site is error-free.

8. External links and third-party resources

This site links extensively to patent registries, standards bodies, statistical agencies, company reports and conference literature, because verifiability requires pointing at the source. We are not responsible for the content, availability or practices of external sites, and a link is not an endorsement of that site or its operator.

External sites are governed by their own terms. Patent registries in particular impose their own conditions on the use of retrieved documents; check those before redistributing patent text you obtained through them.

9. No user submissions or comments

The site does not accept comments and has no user accounts, so we do not receive user-generated content through it. Technical corrections, literature additions and data challenges are handled by email to the research board, under the published process in our Editorial Standards — which gives a correction a traceable record and, where warranted, public credit.

Correspondence you send us is handled as described in our Privacy Policy. Sending us material does not transfer any right in it beyond what is needed to assess and, if appropriate, publish the correction with credit.

10. Availability

We aim to keep the site available but do not warrant uninterrupted access. Pages may be moved, revised or withdrawn as content is developed; URLs are kept stable where possible, and where a page is retired we provide a redirect or a note rather than leaving a dead link.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for any loss arising from use of, or reliance on, this site — including indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, business interruption, and loss arising from any decision taken on the basis of material published here.

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. We would rather state the limit plainly than overreach: this clause limits liability for information we published; it is not an attempt to disown responsibility for how we published it.

You are responsible for your own evaluation, your own compliance position, and your own operational safety.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction. We choose this because the site publishes in English under a .org domain with a substantial European readership, and because a neutral, widely recognised forum is appropriate for an institute that serves an international technical audience.

This does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer or data protection rules in your own country, and it does not affect your rights under the GDPR or equivalent regimes, which we honour regardless of this clause.

13. Changes to these terms

Substantive changes are recorded below with their date and, where the change affects reuse rights, announced on the site. Wording corrections are made without a note. Reuse rights already granted under a stated licence are not withdrawn retroactively for material published under it.

Version log. Version 1.0 — initial publication, 2026-10-30.

14. Contact

  • Reuse permissions and licensing: research@aluminiumrecycling.org
  • Corrections and editorial matters: research@aluminiumrecycling.org
  • Privacy and data rights: privacy@aluminiumrecycling.org
  • Related pages: About · Editorial Standards · Privacy Policy · Resources & Data
中文摘要 · 使用条款

本页说明本站性质、内容许可、允许与禁止的使用方式，以及技术信息的责任边界。内容按站点实际运行方式撰写，非模板套用。

1. 本站是什么。AluminiumRecycling 是一家专注于铝回收技术的独立技术研究机构，发布原铝与再生铝铸造车间领域的技术文献、冶金分析、装备评估与法规梳理。它不是行业协会、认证机构、标准组织、咨询公司，也不是设备或服务供应商；不销售任何东西、不接受付款、不作为任何制造商或回收商的代理人。上述运行边界在”关于机构”页完整列明，并支配本站所有内容的解读方式。

2. 使用主体。本站是面向工程师、车间主管、环保合规人员、研究者与学生的技术参考资料，对所有人开放且无需账户。注册功能已关闭，故不存在账户也无法创建。

3. 内容许可与知识产权。我方原创内容（文本、分析、表格与原创图示）采用许可方式开放复用，建议采用 知识共享 署名-非商业性使用-相同方式共享 4.0 国际（CC BY-NC-SA 4.0）。通俗而言，您可以复制、分发、改编与再创作，包括用于教育与内部业务用途，条件是：① 适当署名——注明”AluminiumRecycling（aluminiumrecycling.org）”并链接至来源页，页面标有版本或复核日期的须一并注明；② 不得商用——不得出售、纳入付费产品或用于以营利为目的的营销材料；③ 相同方式共享——改编后须以同一许可发布；④ 标明修改——须说明已改动，且不得暗示本站为您或您的版本背书。选择前须知悉的取舍：非商业性条款可阻止设备商与回收商将本站分析改用于销售材料——这是本领域最可能发生的滥用；但它也意味着部分行业媒体未经询问无法转载。若您以最大化传播与引用为优先（含商业媒体转载），CC BY 4.0 更合适——它去掉非商业性与相同方式共享两项条件，仅要求署名。两者对这类机构均可取，只是优化目标不同。许可不覆盖的范围：许可只适用于我方的原创表达，不适用于基础事实，也不适用于我方引用的他人材料——专利文本、标准摘录、审核报告内容、统计序列与取自公司报告的数字，其权利仍归各自所有者，本站依引用或摘录方式使用，请勿以本站页面替代向原始来源取得授权；公司名、产品名、标准号与认证标志归各自所有者，其出现属事实性引用，不构成任何方向的背书；HS 编码、产量数字、排放强度等事实性数据在多数司法辖区不受著作权保护，凡本站标明原始来源者，请引用原始来源而非本站。

4. 允许的使用。无需询问即可：阅读浏览；为个人参考或内部使用打印、下载；在学术、技术、监管或内部工作中引用本站（须署名并加链接）；在许可范围内署名引用简短摘录；链接至任何层级的页面，无需事先通知；将本站收入搜索引擎或引文数据库。署名是参考型机构赖以存续的引用链基础，故我们只要求准确：引用我们实际说过的话，并链接至您取用的页面。

5. 禁止的使用。不得：将大段内容当作自己作品发布，或不按许可要求署名；超出第 3 节许可范围作商业使用——用于销售材料、投标文件、付费产品、营销或收费培训；以暗示背书的方式呈现本站内容（为某产品、供应商、服务或商业主张背书）——这是我们最关切的滥用，因为本站读者正是依据技术数据作采购决策的；利用本站暗示任何并不存在的商业关系、代理、认证或 approval；以损害服务的方式抓取、镜像或批量下载，或运行无视 robots 指令的自动爬虫；试图未授权访问本站、其主机或管理功能；发布或传输违法、诽谤或侵害他人权利的内容（本站不接受用户提交内容，此条主要为预防性）；在使用本站时违反适用的出口管制、制裁或竞争法。凡超出第 3 节而您认为正当的使用——例如标准机构希望复制某张表格——请来函；对学术、监管与教育类复用，我们通常乐意授权。

6. 技术信息的性质——援引前请务必阅读本节。这是本条款最重要的一节。本站材料是供信息与教育之用的技术文献与分析，整理自公开来源，并依《学术与文献引用标准》所述核验标准处理——每个数字均标注为可追溯、二手、供应商来源或未证实。该分级告诉您某个数字能承受多大分量，这也是我们承诺的诚实边界。本站内容不是且不得被视为以下任何一项：① 不是操作指引——此处没有任何程序、作业指导、工作许可或安全作业制度。铝渣处理涉及熔融金属、反应性残渣、受限空间与危险废物，作业必须受您本方的风险评估、方法说明、作业许可与胜任人员监督支配。我们描述某种危害（例如氮化铝水解释放氨）是在描述物料属性，而非指导任何人如何操作。② 不是工程设计或规格——此处发布的装备参数系引自来源，不是设计数据，不得在未向制造商与合资格工程师确认的情况下据以选型、采购或改造装备。③ 不是法律意见——我们发布法规梳理（危废归类、海关编码、碳边境机制）属文献工作而非法律意见；具体物料的归类与具体制度下的责任，取决于司法辖区、意图与我们并不掌握的事实。尤其：某项专利已届满、或本站报道其已届满，并不构成自由实施意见——同族专利可能在其他辖区仍有效。请自行取得法律意见。④ 不是商业推荐——我们不推荐、排名、认证或背书任何供应商；产品、工艺或公司的出现属事实性引用；任何采购决定均由您依自身评估作出。⑤ 不是财务、投资或交易建议——市场、贸易与价格相关内容仅供参考。⑥ 不能替代原始来源——凡数字对某项决定至关重要者，请阅读我们所引用的原始文件；摘要会丢失使数字具备可比性的限定条件，这正是本站自身分析反复强调的主题。

7. 准确性、时效与更正。我们力求标注来源、说明每个数字的基准，并标出无法核实之处。即便如此：产量、储量、贸易流、排放强度、CBAM 默认值等已发布数据按其发布机构的日程变动，复核日正确的数字此后可能已被修订；危废归类、海关编码与标准因法域而异并会被修订，请以主管机关确认您所在辖区的实际状况；第三方审核报告所述装备配置仅在审计时点准确，证书有效期为三年。凡内容具时效敏感性的页面均标注复核日期。若发现错误，请致信 research@aluminiumrecycling.org。经证实的更正是公开发布并署名的，且绝不静默——流程见《学术与文献引用标准》。该流程即我们对准确性的承诺；除此之外，我们不另行保证本站绝无错误。

8. 外部链接与第三方资源。本站大量链接至专利数据库、标准机构、统计机构、公司报告与会议文献，因为可核查性要求指向来源。我们不对外部站点的内容、可用性或做法负责，链接亦不构成对该站点或其运营方的背书。外部站点受其自身条款支配；专利数据库尤其对检索所得文件的使用设有自身条件，在转发通过其获取的专利文本前请先查阅该条件。

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13. 本条款的变更。实质性变更在下方按日期记录；凡影响复用权利的变更亦在站内公告。文字性修正不附说明。依既定许可已授予的复用权利，对在该许可下发布的材料不溯及既往地撤回。版本记录：1.0 版，2026-10-30 首发。

14. 联系方式。复用授权与许可：research@aluminiumrecycling.org；更正与编辑事务：research@aluminiumrecycling.org；隐私与数据权利：privacy@aluminiumrecycling.org；相关页面：关于机构 · 学术与文献引用标准 · 隐私政策 · 资源与数据中心。