Buyers used to ask how pure your metal is. The next question is where it came from and what it cost the planet. A passport for things The EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) entered into force in July 2024. Its centrepiece is the Digital

You can buy the same copper at the same London price and still lose eight percent. The third corner of the triangle is why. A tailor, a bolt of cloth and a falling rupee Picture a tailor in Kolkata who buys cloth priced in dollars and

MCX does not invent a copper price. It borrows London’s and wraps it in rupees. The wrapping is where your risk lives. One price, two wrappers Since a 2005 licensing agreement, MCX has used LME prices to settle its metal futures. The MCX copper price is

India turned a pile of dead electronics into a market with prices, buyers, sellers and a court case. A rule that created a marketplace The E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022 cover 106 categories of equipment. They make producers responsible for the end of life of what they

Europe no longer asks only what your aluminium costs. It now asks what the making of it emitted. The meter started running on 1 January 2026 The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) spent October 2023 to December 2025 as a reporting exercise. From 1 January

Copper’s price is the pulse. Anyone can read the pulse. The skill is reading the rhythm underneath it. The pulse is easy. The rhythm is not. LME cash copper stood near $14,413 a tonne on 23 October 2026, with MCX spot at ₹1,387.5 a kg. In