A successful transition to a Circular Economy, as promoted by the European Commission,
requires solid information on the future availability of anthropogenic resources …

Circular economy is recognized as a powerful integrative framework envisioned to solve
societal problems linked to environmental pollution and resource depletion. Its adoption is …

Regarding mineral resources, there is ambiguity around concepts such as scarcity, rarity,
criticality and depletion and associated assessment methods. This paper investigates three …

Although metals and minerals represent a prominent asset for sustainable development,
continuous population growth and the current accelerations in energy and mobility …

The iron and steel industry has a long tradition of bulk reuse of slags for a range of
construction applications. Growing interest in recent years has seen slag resource recovery …

Urban subway system, as an important type of urban transportation infrastructure, can
provide mass mobility service and help address urban sustainability challenges such as …

Mine wastes such as tailings contain minerals that can be valorised. However, their resource
potential remains widely misjudged because of non-standardised assessment and …

It is found that regions with depleted, or on the verge of depletion, of mineral resources are
subject to additional pressures due to intensifying social and environmental problems. This …

Mine wastes and tailings derived from historical processing may contain significant contents
of valuable metals due to processing being less efficient in the past. The Plombières tailings …

In Germany, the current sectoral urban planning often leads to inefficient use of resources,
partly because municipalities lack integrated planning instruments and argumentation …