The TL;DR is misleading. The EU has not “started to recycle aluminum”. It had already done so for a long long time. I feel like the TL;DR also singles out China, seeing as it fails to mention that US companies are also increasingly importing scrap.
Trump administration imposed tariffs on EU steel in March 2025
I don’t know how old your linked article is, as it’s behind a paywall, but according to different sources aluminum US tariffs on aluminum were already implemented or increased in June 2018.
Did China also impose tariffs on EU steel in the meantime? Or, why should chinese companies copy the american companies?
The EU Packaging Waste Regulation laws were enacted in 2025. So considering the 2018s tariffs, US companies had reasons to import aluminum scrap for 7 more years. The increases in available scrap and on tariffs in 2025 surely strengthened this though.
Like every other human.
Why is only every other dead human silent? What about the other half?