India bans export of unclassified battery waste and scrap

The narrow scope is the story here: by targeting only unclassified battery waste free of lead, cadmium and mercury, India is tightening control over a category that sits awkwardly between hazardous and recoverable material, where informal export channels tend to flourish. The immediate effect leaves little transition time for handlers of mixed or poorly documented scrap, while classified streams remain outside the ban. Whether this pushes unclassified material into domestic processing and formal classification, rather than into grey-route diversion, is the open question worth watching.