Recycling
MM-Markets offers bespoke research to strategy, on recycling and scrap world developments, data and trends analysis. Recycling is an evolving issue, with many world-wide facets, and by using secondary data, primary research and depth interviews, MM-Markets is able to quickly, and comprehensively, provide intelligence which answers specific concerns and questions.
AVAILABLE FEEDSTOCK, ANALYSIS AND FORECAST
- Macro environment for scrap collection and recycling leading to focus scenarios 2025-2030
- Define key feedstock product groups based on their expected availability and composition.
- Select feedstock products that likely offer the most attractive value e.g. availability and margins
- Define the current % composition of those selected feedstock products with +/- 15% deviation and expected changes in the composition by 2030.
- Analysis of availability for selected feedstock products :
- Historic availability p.a. 2020-2024 (potentially from 2000)
- Forecast availability p.a. 2025-2030 including
- Incentives to collect vs. landfill
- Domestic/overseas sales incentives
- Expected regulations for motivating collection
- Supply trends.
MATERIALS SUPPLY, DEMAND, AVAILABILITY
- Current and historic levels of supply, demand in tonnes (2020-2024) and forecast (2025-2023) – further historic years will be added if meaningful
- Analysis of historic US supply-demand balance (2020-2024) (shortage/surplus) – covering how supply-demand gap developed and forecast (2025-2023)
- Current and historic levels of domestic supply exported and demand imported in tonnage (2020-2024), reasons for import/exports (e.g. availability, composition, price, shipping costs etc.) and forecast (2025-2023)
- % share of the supply from industrial suppliers (prompt/“new”/“prime” scrap from manufacturing operations) vs. waste management (obsolete/“old”/“end of life”) vs. recovering from landfill in 2024
- Current and historic (2020-2024) availability of metal scrap for recycling incl. explanation of the difference between availability and supply and forecast (2025-2023).
RECYCLED MATERIAL PRODUCTS
- Select top products for each metal with the estimated highest supply e.g. cathode, alloys etc.
- Grades and additional compositions for top products
- Investigate customers of selected recycled metal products and potential overseas, incl. sectors (e.g. construction, transportation, utilities etc.) and larger organisations
- Provide overview on bottlenecks and issues related to selling and using those recycled products e.g. related to contaminants etc.
- Future trends in recycled products, compositions and sources.
FORECAST MARKET DEMAND AND PRICES FOR SALEABLE PRODUCTS
- Define saleable product specifications
- Investigate current and future potential buyers of these products
- Highlight current and potential future competitive landscape for supplying those saleable product over the next five years
- Define historic prices 2020-2024 and forecast future prices 2025-2030 for saleable products
- Required specifications and standard vs. flexible terms of potential buyers.
