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Recycled content

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The materials in the product that were recovered from waste, and the share of each that was.

What it holds

  • Attribute id: material.recycled-content
  • Holds: a table of rows

Columns

  • Material — Mandatory A single material of which some share was recovered from waste.
  • Recovered share — Mandatory The share of this material present in the product that was recovered from waste rather than newly extracted.

Where it applies

Batteries

Mandatory in some cases

Mandatory when Battery category is one of Industrial battery, Electric vehicle battery, SLI battery.

Legal basis

An industrial, electric vehicle or SLI battery containing cobalt, lead, lithium or nickel must be accompanied by documentation of how much of each was recovered from waste, so a passport for one of those categories must carry its recycled content.

“shall be accompanied by documentation containing information about the percentage share of cobalt, lithium or nickel that is present in active materials and that has been recovered from battery manufacturing waste or post-consumer waste”

CELEX:32023R1542, Article 8(1)

Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.

Official terms

No official vocabulary has a term for this concept, so this one is ours.