London | BHP boss Mike Henry says the private sector must turn recycling into a meaningful source of metals for the world, in a possible signal that BHP could join other big miners in the scrap recycling business.

Speaking just two months after Rio Tinto announced plans to spend close to $1 billion growing its footprint in the aluminium recycling industry, Mr Henry told an International Energy Agency summit in Paris on Thursday (Friday AEST) that “there is an opportunity and need for continued lifting of the rates of recycling”.