{"id":1048759,"date":"2026-11-12T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048759"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:14:55","slug":"centre-bans-export-of-li-ion-battery-waste-scrap-to-boost-domestic-recycling-and-critical-mineral-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/12\/centre-bans-export-of-li-ion-battery-waste-scrap-to-boost-domestic-recycling-and-critical-mineral-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre bans export of Li-ion battery waste, scrap to boost domestic recycling and critical mineral recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has banned the export of lithium-ion battery black mass and related battery waste with immediate effect, a move aimed at building a resilient local ecosystem for battery recycling and refining, as well as improving domestic recovery of critical minerals including lithium. <\/p>\n<p>In a notification issued on Tuesday, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) amended the export policy for \u201cwaste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators \u2013 Unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury (Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass)\u201d from \u2018free\u2019 to \u2018prohibited\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has banned the export of lithium-ion battery black mass and related battery waste with immediate effect, a move aimed at building a resilient local ecosystem for battery recycling and refining, as well as improving domestic recovery of critical minerals including lithium. In a notification issued on Tuesday, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) amended the export policy for \u201cwaste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators \u2013 Unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury (Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass)\u201d from \u2018free\u2019 to \u2018prohibited\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048765,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048759\/revisions\/1048765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}