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The production of information and communication technologies generates high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, while the useful life of many devices is becoming ever shorter.

A report shows that the UK metals recycling sector can be a strategic lever for a climate-neutral industrial policy.

Circular strategies have long since ceased to be just a sustainability issue, but are becoming a key instrument of risk management.

A current study shows that the transformation in Japan is less disruptive and more cooperative.

An effective circular economy requires that both formal and informal material flows are transparently recorded and quantified.

What is needed are not only efficient processes, but also the ability to build and control functioning circular ecosystems.

Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and the ongoing transition to a climate-neutral economy are transforming business models, production processes and job profiles worldwide.

A recent report states that the tech sector should not only reduce its own environmental impact, but also support the ecological transformation of other industries.

More than half of all plastic packaging is now accounted for by flexible applications, but closed material cycles have so far been the exception.

The circular economy for plastics is politically set, technologically advanced and socially accepted, and yet its success remains limited.

The gasification of residual forestry waste, recycled waste wood, MSW and lignocellulosic crop wastes is an emerging pathway to producing liquid fuels.