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.

With the EU ETS2, the European Union is extending emissions trading to fuels for buildings and road transport for the first time.

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

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

The public sector steers huge financial flows with its budgets, but environmental and resource effects have so far played only a minor role.

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 CO₂ price is considered one of the most important instruments of German climate policy. However, its actual effect is controversially discussed.

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

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