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Stena Recycling Holding Ab

Stena Recycling

Stena Metallkoncernen har sju verksamhetsområden på 200 platser i nio länder.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment)

26 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on circularity of materials, ban of export of hazardous waste (black mass), Critical Raw Materials, PFAS

Meeting with Isabella Lövin (Member of the European Parliament) and Preem AB

25 Sept 2025 · Circular economy and green transition

Response to Targeted amendment of the European List of Waste as regards waste batteries and wastes from their treatment

8 Nov 2024

Stena Metall AB welcomes the initiative to add waste codes for battery waste since there has been some confusion and different interpretations regarding this waste in the member states, which has been hindering an efficient recycling. We are however, not in favor of the proposed absolute hazardous entry for intermediate fraction from thermal/mechanical treatment of waste lithium-based batteries (19 12 14*) where black mass from used batteries will be placed. Considering the rapid evolution of battery chemistry, and especially lithium-ion batteries, we think it is premature to have an absolute hazardous waste code for black mass from used lithium-ion batteries. There are even today lithium-ion batteries with a chemistry where the black mass does not have any hazardous properties, for example lithium iron phosphate batteries. We therefore think there should be a hazardous waste code (black mass containing hazardous substances) and a non-hazardous code (a mirror entry) for black mass from lithium-ion batteries, as there is for production waste, see proposed waste codes 16 06 23* and 16 06 24. We cannot see the environmental benefits of having black mass that do not have any hazardous properties being treated as hazardous. One of the drivers for exchanging hazardous substances to non-hazardous substances also disappear if the black mass from lithium-ion batteries, regardless of their hazardous properties, always will have to be treated as hazardous waste. We also see a risk that this discrepancy between production waste and waste from used batteries can give the European recycling industry a competitive disadvantage vis à vis for example battery producers in Asia, who are able to export production waste as green listed waste to EU but the recyclers in EU will not be able to do the same with waste with the same properties from used batteries. About Stena Metall: Stena Metall has eight business areas and is present in approximately 200 locations across nine countries, of which around 100 are located in Sweden. The groups net sales for the last financial year amounted to SEK 41,500 million. Each year, six million tons of waste and end-of-life products are recycled and refined, and customers are also supplied with many important raw materials, steel products, and marine fuels. Through research and development, Stena Metall works to meet future challenges with new, sustainable solutions. With a strong focus on innovation, the groups 4,400 employees work closely with partners and customers to meet future challenges with new, smart, and tailored solutions for a more sustainable society.
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Response to Revision of EU legislation on end-of-life vehicles

21 Nov 2023

See attached document. Kind regards Carl Hagberg
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