ERI and Ecoreco Are Building a Recycling Operation in India

By Siam Sukkhee Trading Co., Ltd — 2026-09-07 — Waste360 (recycling/scrap)

Electronic Recyclers International, or ERI, is Fresno-based. Ecoreco is India's only publicly traded e-waste recycling company. And now they're building something together called ERI India.

The partnership is straightforward enough on paper. ERI brings its global expertise in taking apart old electronics, extracting metals and circuits, and keeping data secure. Ecoreco brings the local knowledge—the collection networks, the regulatory compliance infrastructure, the relationships with manufacturers and government. They're co-owning the venture equally, which means neither one is just buying access; they're actually betting on the thing together.

The timing matters.

India produces more electronic waste than anywhere except China and the United States. But here's the catch: Indian law bans shipping e-scrap in or out of the country. So if you want to capture that material, you have to set up shop locally. ERI has already moved into Japan through a partnership with ITOCHU this year, and Vietnam through Green Marble Co. This India play is their third Asian venture announced in 2026 alone. The company isn't messing about with organic growth or greenfield operations; it's moving fast through partnerships.

What makes this useful—actually, that's not quite right. What makes this necessary is that the stuff piling up in India's scrapyards and e-waste collection points contains recoverable material worth real money. Copper. Precious metals. Rare earths in some cases. And critical minerals for battery production. A joint venture structured this way can process it faster and more transparently than the informal sector can. That matters for India's own manufacturing, which depends on these recovered materials flowing back into new products.

The operation is supposed to begin later this year in Mumbai. Neither company is talking grand opening dates or facility capacity yet—which is sensible, because moving heavy industrial equipment into a new country while building compliance protocols takes longer than a press release suggests. But the announcement itself, made at a recycling conference in Tokyo in front of eight hundred delegates and government officials, signals something about how seriously they're taking the Indian market.

For Siam Sukkhee and traders working in metals and secondary materials, the story here is simpler: demand for responsibly recovered materials in India is about to become visible and traceable in ways it wasn't before. A major international player with audited processes and regulatory compliance is entering a market that runs on informal supply chains. That changes the competitive picture. Whether that's an opportunity or a pressure depends on what you're holding and where you're positioned.

Source: "ERI continues its partnership approach to international expansion." — Recycling Today

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