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How the Circular Economy Act can provide the tools to help scale Europe’s recycling industry, in order to secure access to critical minerals.
Recovering materials from end-of-life products like cars and batteries is a key means to secure much needed critical minerals resiliently and sustainably. However, Europe’s recycling industry is struggling to scale and compete globally. The Circular Economy Act can and must provide the tools to support the effective scaling of Europe’s material recovery and recycling capacity.
At least 60% of Europe’s black mass is leaving the EU to be processed elsewhere.
Scrap aluminium worth $2.4 billion was exported from the EU in 2024.
