Copper Recycling
The industry that collects, sorts and processes scrap copper into reusable raw material, supplying secondary copper rod and cathode producers as a typically lower-cost alternative to newly mined and refined copper.
Covered in 3 MetalsCost.com News Intelligence articles, most recently on September 18, 2026.
Coverage
India's Copper Stockpile Is Growing by 1.1 Million Tonnes a Year, But Barely Any of It Gets Properly Recycled
A large and growing in-use copper stock (15 million tonnes, up 1.1 million tonnes a year) and a rising secondary-copper share of demand (42% in FY25) give India's recycling sector a bigger long-term resource base, even though most current processing is cruder direct remelting rather than sophisticated secondary refining.
Hindustan Copper Plans to More Than Triple Ore Output by 2030 Under a Rs 7,200 Crore Roadmap
Reviving the dormant Gujarat Copper Project under LOHUM's operation gives Hindustan Copper a secondary refining route processing copper scrap into cathode, adding recycled supply alongside mined ore.
China's Copper Scrap Suppliers Keep Selling as Shanghai Copper Price Nears 110,000 Yuan
Scrap suppliers are capturing elevated prices by selling into the current strength, but a narrowing cathode-scrap spread and rising invoice compliance costs are eroding the margin advantage that makes scrap cheaper than newly refined cathode.
