Dear Colleagues,

The by-products of many metal refineries can potentially be used as resource materials for other production of activities. Increasing focus on ‘circular economy’, closed loop production and industrial symbiosis principles and methods is suggesting a need to consider mining and production waste as potential by-products and secondary resources.

New extractive technologies, increasing resource costs and sustainable production models are all focused on extracting further resources and value from mining and production waste. Furthermore, the potential recycling rates of rare earths and metals will become increasingly important as the supply and resource availability of these resources is limited by their finite supply and geo-political considerations in growing global markets.

This Special Issue of Recycling will consider recent advances in metal recycling and the role of this increasingly important industry in modern sustainability management.

Topics could include:

• Physical Metal recycling technology
• Metal recycling techniques
• Extractive metallurgy (hydro- and pyrometallurgical)
• Processing of residues from metal processing systems
• Closed Loop Production of Metals in a Circular Economy (CE)
• Design for Recycling
• Rare earth and mineral recycling
• Metal complex catalysts
• Recycling of spent Lithium Ion Batteries (LIB)
• Metal recycling policy and regulation
• Urban mining
• Physical separation technologies
• Simulation-based environmental assessment of metal recycling
• Sustainability of systems i.e. simulation-based footprinting of metal recycling
• Exergy analysis
• Urban mining/collection
• Digitalization of recycling processes and systems
• Metal Recycling Policy development
• Fundamental and big-data simulation approaches
• Sensor technology

Prof. Dr. Markus Reuter
Prof. Dr. Michele John
Guest Editors

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