The growing challenges on fuel economy improvement and greenhouse gas emission
control have become the driving force for automakers to produce lightweight automobiles …

Circular economy's (CE) noble aims maximize resource efficiency (RE) by, for example,
extending product life cycles and using wastes as resources. Modern society's vast and …

To keep the increase in global average temperature below 2° C the use of renewable
energy sources is essential. There are various scenarios for this energy transition …

A material flow analysis of the 2012 Swiss waste management system is presented,
highlighting the material content available from waste. Half of municipal solid waste (MSW) …

We have assembled extensive information on the cradle-to-gate environmental burdens of
63 metals in their major use forms, and illustrated the interconnectedness of metal …

The rapid economic development of emerging countries in combination with an accelerating
spread of new technologies has led to a strongly increasing demand for industrial metals …

This paper explores flows and stocks, at the scale of the European Union, of certain rare
earth elements (REEs; Pr, Nd, Eu, Tb, Dy and Y) which are associated with products that are …

Contamination poses a significant problem to the circular economy (CE), which derives
much of its value from maintaining pure material flows. The aim of this article is to frame …

Metallurgy is a key enabler of a circular economy (CE), its digitalization is the metallurgical
Internet of Things (m-IoT). In short: Metallurgy is at the heart of a CE, as metals all have …

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the supply security of mineral raw
materials. A key to the current debate is the concept of'criticality'. The present article reviews …