Managing the end-of-life of nickel-containing materials and products
Main sustainability challenges:
- To increase knowledge of where the nickel is in products
- To know how long products remain in service before becoming available for collection and recycling
- To know where products end up at the end of their useful lives
- To ensure that increasing percentages of nickel-containing materials and products that become available at end-of-life are (a) collected and (b) recycled
Recycling of metals (general, including economics of recycling)
Production scrap (including stainless steel production, high-nickel alloys, copper-based alloys, plating, foundry products, batteries, catalysts)
End-of-Life scrap (including white goods, electronics, coinage, batteries, medical appliances, beer kegs, commercial and domestic kitchenware, tableware, chemical processing, food processing, tanks and vessels, petroleum and gas, power generation, automotive, aerospace, rail, building and construction)
