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E-commerce of Low-cost Products Under EU Scrutiny: “More Responsibility Needed”
E-commerce imports of low-cost products are under EU scrutiny due to environmental and regulatory concerns. The European Commission is calling for stricter rules to ensure compliance and…
Editorial Team•6 February 2025
Circular Economy
Electric vehicles: 25% of critical minerals…
A study by Transport & Environment estimates the industrial potential of the…
Editorial Team•19 December 2024
Circular Economy
The scourge of landfills in Europe…
With almost 500,000 open landfills in Europe, there is much to be…
Editorial Team•27 August 2024
Circular Economy
With pineapple leaves you get an impressive upcycling of HDPE
Combining waste vegetable fibers with recycled polyethylene allows an upcycling of HDPE that makes it suitable…
30 January 2024
Recycling
From Germany a technique to produce steel from aluminium waste
The treatment of red mud makes it possible to obtain steel from aluminum waste and avoid…
30 January 2024
Circular Economy
Lemon improves recovery of critical raw materials from lithium batteries
With organic citric acid and ethylene glycol recovery of critical raw materials from batteries is even…
19 January 2024
Circular Economy
From the upcycling of Wastepaper an anti shock foam better than polystyrene
Economical and environmentally friendly, the product developed by the American Chemical Society enables upcycling of carton…
17 January 2024
Circular Economy
High-performance cathodes are born from the upcycling of lithium batteries
The University of Birmingham has managed to obtain new cathodes with high energy density from upcycling…
5 January 2024
Circular Economy
China 10 years ahead of US and EU in recycling critical raw…
By 2059, Beijing will be the first independent country in battery production thanks to the recycling…
15 December 2023
Circular Economy
Compostable coffee capsules are the only circular solution
An analysis by Wageningen University shows that the environmental impacts of compostable coffee capsules are minimal…
23 November 2023
Recycling
What are plastic credits and why environmentalists worry
In the negotiations for the Plastic Treaty, the solution sought by the companies is firmly established.…
17 November 2023
Circular Economy
Solvolysis optimizes the recycling of carbon fiber composites
A specific pressure and temperature solvent pretreatment makes recycling of carbon fiber composites more advantageous
31 October 2023
Circular Economy
Successful recycling of carbon fiber that does not spoil the material
The difficulty of recycling carbon fiber is that you need to shred it to recover the…
31 October 2023
Circular Economy
Recycling of coffee grounds: the first beer is born in Singapore
The Department of Food Science and Technology of the Asian University has made an alcoholic beverage…
25 September 2023
Recycling
From Texas the method to recover hydrogen from plastic waste
By applying joule heating to produce graphene it is also possible to recover hydrogen from plastic…
18 September 2023
Energy
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