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Materials Recyling Rate
The figures below have been established by WEEECycling in 2025. They illustrate the actual efficiency of current recyling processes through the recycling rate of elements found in e-waste streams.
| Element | Actual recycling rate of elements in ewaste (recycling process efficiency) |
| Aluminium | 95% |
| Antimony | 4% |
| Arsenic | 20% |
| Beryllium | 63% |
| Bismuth | 69% |
| Cadmium | 35% |
| Cerium | 25% |
| Copper | 68% |
| Dysprosium | 0% |
| Erbium | 37% |
| Gallium | 46% |
| Germanium | 44% |
| Gold | 65% |
| Indium | 0% |
| Iridium | 10% |
| Lanthanum | 9% |
| Neodymium | 3% |
| Nickel | 80% |
| Niobium | 95% |
| Palladium | 25% |
| Platinum | 40% |
| Rohdium | 50% |
| Ruthenium | 10% |
| Scandium | 61% |
| Silicon | 0% |
| Silver | 65% |
| Strontium | 1% |
| Tantalum | 58% |
| Tin | 60% |
| Tungsten | 73% |
| Yttrium | 1% |
| Zinc | 70% |