Europe's Waste Could Cover More than Half of the Demand for Critical Materials by 2050
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Many important minerals end up in the trash. But by 2050, Europe's waste could cover half of its need for critical raw materials, a new study shows.
Europe’s recyclers miss most of the critical materials
Europe is sitting on a growing stockpile of cobalt, lithium, rare earths, and other critical materials. Most of it is being lost. A major Horizon Europe-funded research project has just put numbers to that problem. The Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials project, which spent four years modeling how much critical raw material value is embedded in Europe’s waste streams and how much could realistically be recovered by 2050, has publishe…
Europe has a strategic opportunity for its industrial future in its waste. According to a new study by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), by 2050 waste recovery systems could allow the continent to recover between 4.1 and 5.7 million tons of critical materials annually, […]
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