Europe misses out on €78 billion in value from aluminum, plastics, and steel products, typically due to these materials not being recycled at all or from the products sustaining downgraded effects after a cycle of use. These lost materials could supply 64 percent of EU production for the same materials today if they made it to recycling facilities.
To read the article, see “How a ‘materials transition’ can support the net-zero agenda,” July 20, 2022.