{"title":"Recovered secondary raw materials market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/149-recovered-secondary-raw-materials","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"149","label":"Recovered secondary raw materials"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 3 supply contracts for recovered secondary raw materials through award notices on TED; the 2 of them that state a value (66.7%) add up to €1.82 million. EU countries together imported €55.5 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to recovered secondary raw materials in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 7112, 7404, 7204, 7602, 4707 and 11 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 13.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 7 companies have won 7 public supply contracts for recovered secondary raw materials in 30 European countries, in 7 award notices from 7 public buyers.","0% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer.","The five companies that win most often hold 71.4% of all awards across Europe.","0% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":7,"awardNotices":7,"winningCompanies":7,"publicBuyers":7,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":3269272,"localAwards":7,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.7142857142857143,"singleBidAwards":0,"awardsWithKnownBids":6,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2025,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":1822984},{"year":2026,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":1446288}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"7112","label":"Waste and scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal"},{"hs4":"7404","label":"Waste and scrap, of copper (excl. ingots or other similar unwrought shapes, of remelted copper waste and scrap, ashes and residues containing copper, and waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators)"},{"hs4":"7204","label":"Ferrous waste and scrap"},{"hs4":"7602","label":"Waste and scrap, of aluminium (excl. slags, scale and the like from iron and steel production, containing recoverable aluminium in the form of silicates, ingots or other similar unwrought shapes, of remelted waste and scrap, of aluminium, ashes and residues from aluminium production)"},{"hs4":"4707","label":"Recovered \"waste and scrap\" paper or paperboard (excl. paper wool)"},{"hs4":"2620","label":"Slag, ash and residues containing metals, arsenic or their compounds (excl. those from the manufacture of iron or steel)"},{"hs4":"3915","label":"Waste, parings and scrap, of plastics"},{"hs4":"7503","label":"Waste and scrap, of nickel (excl. ingots or other similar unwrought shapes, of remelted nickel waste and scrap, ashes and residues containing nickel and waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators)"},{"hs4":"7902","label":"Zinc waste and scrap (excl. ash and residues from zinc production \"heading 2620\", ingots and other similar unwrought shapes, of remelted waste and scrap, of zinc \"heading 7901\" and waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators)"},{"hs4":"7802","label":"Lead waste and scrap (excl. ashes and residues from lead production \"heading No 2620\", and ingots or other similar unwrought shapes, of remelted waste and scrap, of lead \"heading No 7801\" and waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries et electric accumulators)"},{"hs4":"7001","label":"Cullet and other waste and scrap of glass"},{"hs4":"2621","label":"Slag and ash, incl. seaweed ash \"kelp\""},{"hs4":"6310","label":"Used or new rags, scrap twine, cordage, rope and cables and worn-out articles thereof, of textile materials"},{"hs4":"8002","label":"Tin waste and scrap (excl. ash and residues from the manufacture of tin of heading 2620, and ingots and similar unwrought tin produced from melted tin waste and scrap of heading 8001)"},{"hs4":"5505","label":"Waste of man-made staple fibres, incl. noils, yarn waste and garnetted stock"},{"hs4":"4004","label":"Waste, parings and scrap of soft rubber and powders and granules obtained therefrom"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":49046235397},{"year":2024,"valueEur":51740338526},{"year":2025,"valueEur":55520391449}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Recovered secondary raw materials market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/149-recovered-secondary-raw-materials, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}