Recovery of Critical Raw Materials from Mining and Electronic Waste
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 392
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Interests: Lithium-ion batteries, battery recycling and reuse; reactive-transport modeling; electrokinetic remediation
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Interests: battery recycling and reuse; electrokinetic remediation; soil remediation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The European Commission has updated its list of critical raw materials, now containing up to 30 materials. Other regions are also building up their own list of key materials. For example, USA has a list of 35 minerals deemed critical to national security and the economy. These materials are essential to the functioning and integrity of a wide range of industrial ecosystems. In particular, critical raw materials are those that are most important economically and have a high supply risk. In fact, the COVID-19 crisis during 2020 has revealed just how fast and how deeply global supply chains can be disrupted.
Promoting the circular economy is the best way to limit the extreme pressure on the planet caused by several aspects such as the increase of greenhouse emissions, decline of ecosystems or loss of biodiversity. Therefore, finding new ways to recover these essential materials from waste within a circular economy framework is a priority for sustainability. This Special Issue compiles cutting edge reviews and research papers addressing resource-efficient and economically-feasible techniques for reuse and recycling processes targeting these critical raw materials.
Dr. Juan Manuel Paz-García
Dr. Maria Villen-Guzman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainability
- Circular Economy
- Critical Raw Materials
- Recycling
- Life Cycle Assessment
