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The WasteBot needs only 24 hours to convert household waste into affordable organic fertilizer.

The METALLON Project investigates new recycling techniques with a lower environmental impact for batteries.

Although Italy is considered one of the pioneers in the EU when it comes to the circular economy, there is still a lot of untapped potential.

The EEA has examined how the material footprint has developed in the EU recently and offers suggestions for improvement.

Complex multilayer materials are now very common and widely used.

A current report analyses how the circular economy and the SDGs can be successfully linked.

ScaVanger Cooperative proposes an industrial symbiosis process to extract Sc compounds from various streams.

Sorting is a crucial yet daunting task, especially when the goal is to accurately identify and separate various materials from a chaotic mix.

Recently, the fashion industry has made a major shift towards the concept of fast fashion. This development has led to the introduction of clothing collections in the market for short periods.

Collection and recycling rates are important. However, the question is how reliable these figures are.

Hydrometallurgy is widely utilised for extracting metals from end-of-life products at low energy consumption with the possibility of recovering by-products.