RT Report
T1 Metal Recycling: Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 International Resource Panel, 
SN 978-92-807-3267-2
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8423
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8423
NO This report discusses how to increase metal-recycling rates – and thus resource efficiency from both quantity and quality viewpoints. The discussion is based on data about recycling input, and the technological infrastructure and worldwide economic realities of recycling. Decision-makers set increasingly ambitious targets for recycling, but far too much valuable metal today is lost because of the imperfect collection of end-of-life (EoL) products, improper practices, or structural deficiencies within the recycling chain, which hinder achieving our goals of high resource efficiency and resource security, and of better recycling rates.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 24, 2026