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The terms that move the scrap market, defined in plain English — from HMS and MS scrap to rPET, EPR and yield.
Compressing loose scrap into dense bales for cheaper transport and handling.
Ferrous machining chips from lathes and boring machines; a lower-grade scrap.
Keeping materials in use through reuse, repair and recycling.
Unwanted material in a scrap stream that lowers yield and price.
Rules making producers responsible for recycling their packaging or products.
Iron-based scrap that a magnet attracts — the largest category by volume.
A registered Indian business's 15-character GST identification number.
Heavy melting steel scrap, graded HMS 1 and HMS 2, used as furnace feed.
The global benchmark exchange for non-ferrous metal prices.
Mild-steel scrap — sheets, structurals and offcuts remelted into new steel.
Iron-free metals — aluminium, copper, brass — with higher value per kg.
Post-consumer PET bottles, baled and sorted by colour, feedstock for rPET.
The processed output of recycling — flakes, pellets or remelted metal.
PET reclaimed from used bottles, reprocessed into flakes, pellets or fibre.
Sorting mixed waste into single-material streams to raise quality and price.
Steel scrap reduced to fist-sized, magnetically cleaned furnace feed.
Scrap is quoted per kg at the trader level and per metric tonne in bulk.
The share of an incoming scrap load that becomes usable recyclate.