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Here is the “sponge” that recovers rare earth elements from permanent magnets and wastewater
From Korea, a study on an innovative material to recover certain metals from rare earth elements, valuable for the electronics and automotive industries
Editorial Team•13 December 2024
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With this ecological sponge, extracting gold…
A material made of graphene oxide and chitosan allows for the extraction…
Editorial Team•6 November 2024
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A new material opens up recyclable…
Made by Meta and Boston MIT, the polymer aims to replace normal…
Editorial Team•11 August 2024
Recycling
Converting abandoned mines into gravity batteries thanks to sand
The new technique developed by IIASA is called Underground Gravity Energy Storage (UGES) and exploits the…
14 January 2023
Recycling
Recovery of critical raw materials: mine is TEP time
A process developed by researchers at Ohio State University, called trap-extract-precipitate, manages to recover rare earth…
11 January 2023
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Tyres made from recycling plastic PET: Continental’s innovation
A line of circular tyres, produced by the recycling of plastic PET bottles. ContiRe.Tex is expected…
14 April 2022
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Food sustainability: new sweetener from fruit waste
Circular economy, waste reduction and food sustainability are the goals of Fooditive. The Dutch company recycles…
5 April 2022
Recycling
Sustainable fabrics, what is the Brussels strategy to close the circle?
Two reports by the European Environment Agency (EEA) calculate the environmental and climate footprint of this…