Materials or objects rejected during the battery manufacturing process that cannot be re-used as an integral part of the same process and need to be recycled.
The term separates manufacturing scrap from waste batteries generated after use. That distinction matters for recycling evidence, mass-balance records, recycled-content claims, and producer or facility reporting.
EU Battery Regulation Article 3 defines battery manufacturing waste around rejection during manufacturing, inability to be re-used as an integral part in the same process, and the need for recycling. Those three conditions should remain linked.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
the materials or objects rejected during the battery manufacturing process, which cannot be re-used as an integral part in the same process and need to be recycled;
Reference: Article 3, point 51
Public draft page. Preserve EU Battery Regulation category, actor, and EPR-operation boundaries.
Implementation records should capture manufacturing process, rejected material/object type, reason it cannot be re-used in the same process, transfer event, recycler or permitted facility, recycling evidence, and any mass-balance link to recycled-content claims.
Battery manufacturing waste is a production-stage evidence category. It keeps scrap, re-use, recycling, and recycled-content records traceable instead of merging factory rejects with post-consumer waste-battery flows.