recycling scrap supply

Metal recovered from end-of-life products and industrial scrap, counted as the second source of supply after mine production in the Silver Institute and WPIC supply/demand balances.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - Silver Institute market statistics — "recycling in the World Silver Survey". - World Platinum Investment Council supply/demand data — "recycling split out in the quarterly tables". - IPA statistics — "life cycle assessment datasets for primary and secondary PGM production".

Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.

The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Silver Institute market statistics lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open Silver Institute market statistics and confirm its record — "recycling in the World Silver Survey" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Open World Platinum Investment Council supply/demand data and confirm its record — "recycling split out in the quarterly tables" — against the files you actually receive.
3. Open IPA statistics and confirm its record — "life cycle assessment datasets for primary and secondary PGM production" — against the files you actually receive.

See the term applied to real records: precious-metals-minerals data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - above ground stocks - mine production - supply and demand balance