The Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials (FutuRaM) project commenced on 1st June 2022 and finished in May 2026 with the aim of supporting a secure supply of secondary and critical raw materials from within the European Union.

FutuRaM, funded through the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, developed the Secondary Raw Materials knowledge base on the availability and recoverability of secondary raw materials (SRMs) within the European Union (EU), with a special focus on critical raw materials (CRMs).

FutuRaM focused on six waste streams: batteries; electrical and electronic equipment; vehicles; mining; slags and ashes; and construction and demolition. These waste streams represent an important source of CRMs.

This ambitious project delivered by a consortium of 28 outstanding partners from 11 countries across Europe contributed to the setting up the WF-RepTool DATA area.

The goal of the DATA area is to compile and share average information on the material composition of e-waste. Four charts show information about:

• average material composition,
• critical raw materials recovered,
• a selection of components removed from e-waste during the recycling processes (e.g. batteries), and
• the recycling and recovery rates achieved by the different collection groups (Large equipment, temperature exchange equipment, screens, small equipment, small IT and lamps).