With a growing concern of the modern recycling engineers, the industrial wastes pose a challenge that the world faces. Aluminium dross is one of the many industrial wastes that are generated in aluminium smelter plants all around the world. Utilizing these industrial wastes for the generation of valuable products is one of the major areas of current research. The primary target of the recyclers has been to recover the metallic content of aluminium dross. The modern Salt-Free Technologies (SFT) has been able to achieve this target. The cost of operation, however, is greater than the conventional rotary salt furnaces (RSF).The hydrometallurgical routes involve the leaching of the dross. This process leads to the extraction of metallic aluminium into the liquor and this liquor is utilized to synthesize various valuable products like alums and sulfates, etc. With the leaching, the liberation of various gases (H2, CH4 and NH3) takes place. These gases may be captured and used in their respective applications. The residual solid obtained post-leaching is utilized for the production of alumina, which further finds its applications in the generation of composites. The dross has also been directly used as a raw material for the production of refractories, composites, cement clinkers, etc.Therefore, an industrial waste, aluminium dross is employed with good resultant products. Not only is the metallic content of the dross valued, the modern trend implies the complete utilization of the waste. With minimum waste generation and reduced environmental burden, the modern approaches of recycling achieve the recovery of aluminium dross. The present work focuses on these modern technologies and the recent research trends.