Recycling Credit in Material Planning

What this topic covers

Account for recovered platinum without assuming perfect closed-loop recovery.

Core energy-system ideas

Recovered metal can reduce future primary material requirements.

Real recycling includes collection gaps, processing losses and time delays.

Planning scenarios should therefore use explicit recovery assumptions.

Important tradeoffs

Platinum intensity and lifetime productivity answer different questions.

Material and performance evidence

Price scenarios should use user-entered current assumptions rather than forecasts embedded in the site.

Lifecycle perspective

Supply resilience can improve through lower loading, longer life, recycling and supplier diversity.