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Rinnovabili • Construction Materials Recycling: Italy Leads Europe but Faces Challenges in Reuse
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Construction Materials Recycling: Italy Leads Europe…

Italy recycles 98% of construction waste, leading Europe, but struggles with reuse…

Rinnovabili • Precious Metals: Iren Launches First Facility for RAEE Treatment
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Europe’s First Precious Metals Recovery Plant…

Discover Iren’s groundbreaking facility in Tuscany, designed to recover gold, silver, palladium,…


Rinnovabili • recycling wind turbines
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A new coalition of companies to recycling wind turbines

The new Coalition for Wind Industry Circularity estimates that recycling wind turbines would open a market…

Rinnovabili • lithium batteries
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Recycling lithium batteries efficiently and economically is now possible

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered the method to recycle lithium batteries without wasting…

Rinnovabili • Legacy Plastic
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Legacy Plastic, the first pellet made from the recycling of marine plastic

From the non-profit OLF arrives the first plastic granules made from 100% recycled ocean plastic

Rinnovabili • gravity batteries
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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…

Rinnovabili • Recovery of critical raw materials
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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…

Rinnovabili • recycling-plastic-PET
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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…

Rinnovabili • food-sustainability
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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…

Rinnovabili • Sustainable fabrics
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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…