In 2024, China saw the recycling of over * billion yuan worth of scrap metal, the highest value among recycled materials. Steel and aluminum are the most recycled materials in the world because they can be reused multiple times. In contrast, despite the high prevalence of batteries in the economy, only *** thousand metric tons of batteries had been recycled in 2023.
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