A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.
Recycling is a core circularity term, but it is not a catch-all for every end-of-life activity. The EU Waste Framework Directive defines it as a recovery operation that reprocesses waste materials into products, materials, or substances. Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy defines reciclagem through the transformation of solid waste into inputs or new products. DIN DKE SPEC 99100 provides battery-passport implementation context rather than a verbatim legal definition.
This page combines EU Waste Framework Directive wording, Brazil National Solid Waste Policy wording, and DIN battery-passport context. The Portuguese legal text remains authoritative for the Brazil source layer, with a draft English translation for readability. DIN is treated as implementation context, not as a verbatim legal definition. ELV source context: EU and UK end-of-life vehicle rules use this term inside vehicle waste, treatment, dismantling, reuse, recycling, recovery, disposal, and certificate workflows. For auto customers, connect the term to vehicle identity, authorised treatment facility records, certificate evidence, and downstream material routes. Ontario ELV context: O. Reg. 85/16 defines end-of-life vehicle through motor vehicles and motor vehicle hulks that are abandoned or managed for recycling, non-operable reuse, or disposal; it also defines an end-of-life vehicle waste disposal site as a facility context for managing ELVs, removed components, fluids, metal, and related materials. India RVSF context: the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021 frame vehicle scrapping as a registered-facility process linking end-of-life vehicles, Certificates of Deposit, Certificates of Vehicle Scrapping, depollution, dismantling, material segregation, final disposal, and recycling evidence. Türkiye ELV context: the Turkish regulation uses official Turkish terms for ELV, temporary storage area, treatment, treatment facility, dismantling information, recycler/recovery/disposal concepts, and producer/economic-operator roles. Treat the Turkish official definition as authoritative; English translations are draft aids only. China ELV context: State Council Order No. 715 defines scrapped motor vehicles through the Road Traffic Safety Law, uses an ELV recycling certificate as the administrative proof document, and controls five major assemblies for remanufacturing or scrap-metal routes. Treat Chinese official text as authoritative; English translations are draft aids only. California ELV/salvage context: the US layer is state-specific, using California Vehicle Code definitions for automobile dismantler, total loss salvage vehicle, nonrepairable vehicle, and acquisition notices. Do not present this as a unified US federal ELV regime or merge it with EU, UK, India, China, or Türkiye ELV definitions. NSW motor vehicle recycler context: this Australia layer is official NSW Government guidance linked to the Motor Dealers and Repairers Act/Regulation. It supports state-specific dismantling and recycled-parts evidence, but it is not a national Australian ELV regime and should not be merged with US, EU, UK, India, China, or Türkiye ELV terms. PPWR context: Regulation (EU) 2025/40 defines packaging, packaging waste, prevention, reuse/refill systems, recyclability, and packaging actor roles for the EU packaging regime. Do not collapse PPWR producer/manufacturer/importer/distributor or market-entry wording into other product, battery, waste, or ELV source meanings. North America critical-minerals context: U.S. sources use designation/list logic under 30 U.S.C. § 1606 and the Federal Register 2022 list; Canada Income Tax Act section 127.49 uses qualifying material and qualifying mineral activity for a tax-credit context. Keep these source layers separate from EU CRMA critical/strategic raw material and EU conflict-minerals definitions.
Law No. 12.305 of 2 August 2010 — National Solid Waste Policy
processo de transformação dos resíduos sólidos que envolve a alteração de suas propriedades físicas, físico-químicas ou biológicas, com vistas à transformação em insumos ou novos produtos, observadas as condições e os padrões estabelecidos pelos órgãos competentes do Sisnama e, se couber, do SNVS e do Suasa
Brazil source-specific definition; Portuguese text is authoritative and the English translation is a draft Minespider working translation.
Reference: Article 3, point XIV
Directive 2008/98/EC on waste
any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations
Waste Framework Directive backbone definition; preserve separately from battery-specific, product-specific, or jurisdiction-specific definitions.
Reference: Article 3, point 17
Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials
recycling as defined in Article 3, point (17), of Directive 2008/98/EC
The EU Critical Raw Materials Act incorporates this definition by reference to Directive 2008/98/EC Article 3, point 17; the referenced act remains the primary source for the underlying definition.
Reference: Article 2, point 10
Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of life vehicles
the reprocessing in a production process of the waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery. Energy recovery means the use of combustible waste as a means to generate energy through direct incineration with or without other waste but with recovery of the heat
Reference: Article 2, point 7
The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003
the reprocessing in a production process of waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery. Energy recovery means the use of combustible waste as a means to generate energy through direct incineration with or without other waste but with recovery of the heat
Reference: Regulation 2
Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021
the reclamation and processing of waste in an environmentally sound manner for the original purpose or other
Reference: Rule 3(1)
Ömrünü Tamamlamış Araçların Kontrolü Hakkında Yönetmelik
Enerji olarak geri kazanımı hariç, orijinal kullanım veya diğer amaçlar için atık malzemelerin bir üretim sürecinde yeniden işleme tabi tutulmasını
Reference: Madde 4
报废机动车回收管理办法
拆解的报废机动车“五大总成”具备再制造条件的，可以按照国家有关规定出售给具有再制造能力的企业经过再制造予以循环利用；不具备再制造条件的，应当作为废金属，交售给钢铁企业作为冶炼原料。
Reference: 第十二条
These entries are non-verbatim context summaries. They are not presented as public legal definitions.
DIN DKE SPEC 99100:2025-02 — Requirements for data attributes of the battery passport
DIN DKE SPEC 99100 uses recycling as battery-passport implementation context for end-of-life material-recovery pathways that should be distinguished from re-use, repurposing, and preparation steps.
Non-verbatim implementation-context summary only; not a verbatim DIN definition. DIN DKE SPEC 99100 is a copyrighted standard, so this page gives context rather than republishing the standard text.
Reference: Section 3 lifecycle terminology
Recycling is the material-recovery pathway in which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials, or substances. In battery and circularity workflows, it should be kept separate from re-use, preparation for recycling, repurposing, collection, storage, and disposal.
Implementation records should capture the recycling event, waste-material input, recovered-output record, process boundary, operator, facility, mass or yield evidence, and distinction from collection, storage, dismantling, shipment, or preparation for recycling.
Recycling is a material-recovery event control: the evidence consequence is that circularity claims can distinguish waste reprocessing into products, materials, or substances from upstream handling and downstream destination records.