According to FEAD, battery fires caused an estimated €2.66 billion in damage in the EU waste sector in 2025, and incidents are rising.

Indian recyclers have urged the EU to reconsider its Waste Shipment Regulation, which excludes India from a provisional list of approved importers.

Trade barriers are increasingly driven by supply chain security concerns rather than economic or environmental reasons, according to BIR.

Demand for recovered raw materials from electronics is rising. However, inconsistent waste classifications continue to complicate international trade in recycled materials.

A report by the European Environment Agency finds that clean industrial transformation can boost competitiveness, but must accelerate.

The Bureau of International Recycling asks the European Commission to revise planned export limits for recycled metals and extend its consultation.

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a patented plastic waste upcycling process that turns polyolefins into a high-performance adhesive.

Matiq has equipped its Sheffield materials recovery facility with 14 Tomra Autosort units and PolyPerception analysers for real-time visibility.

According to model calculations, the increasing copper demand of electromobility can in princi-ple be met by 2050, but with very different consequences for mining, processing capacities and ore grades.

The increasing demand for aluminium in the European automotive industry is increasing the pressure to use more secondary material in demanding vehicle applications.

Indian recycler RiBotl produces food-grade rPET on a Starlinger bottle-to-bottle system, following FSSAI authorisation in March 2026.

Recycling is often seen as the key to securing critical raw materials. However, the picture for titanium in aviation is more differentiated.