With the continuous development of the global copper industry, the demand for raw materials is also gradually increasing, the contradiction between supply and demand is becoming more and more prominent, the supply of ore raw materials is getting tighter and tighter, more and more enterprises will shift their attention to the recycled copper. Recycling copper from copper-containing waste and miscellaneous materials to obtain copper-containing products is called recycled copper. In the production, processing and consumption of copper and its alloys in the process of waste products, scraps, scrap, waste equipment parts and household goods, etc., are the production of recycled copper raw materials. In western countries, recycled copper (including the direct use of miscellaneous copper) in the total output of refined copper accounted for a high proportion, of which, France, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and so on are more than 40%, Italy almost 100% of the refined copper is recycled copper.

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