Fossil-free steel? Trucks of 313 tonne capacity electrically driven? Industry streams recycled for research? A smelter almost 100 years old that has become one of the largest recyclers of e-waste or the so-called world’s greenest battery factory? All of these ideas...
After a couple of years of covid-related restrictions, the joint NEMO/CROCODILE/TARANTULA high-level expert panel finally gathered again in person on March 10, 2022. The goal was to discuss global perspectives on reprocessing of mine tailings. An international group...
The time required to manually identify the product model and retrieve relevant information challenges the economic viability of various end-of(-first)-life treatment options for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). Therefore, the Lifecycle Engineering research...
SOLVOMET/SIM2 KU Leuven and VITO researchers developed a process to recover copper, zinc and lead from chloride leachates of photovoltaic panel residues. The work, which was published in RSC Advances, was performed in the framework of the H2020 MSCA-ETN SULTAN...
SOLVOMET members have developed a closed-loop, green, and environmentally-friendly process to recover REEs from lamp phosphor waste using methanesulfonic acid (MSA). This new process can sequentially recover, with outstanding selectivity, three different lamp phosphor...
“Rare-earth recycling needs market intervention” … that’s the title of the Nature Reviews Materials Comment article (Impact Factor = 75) by SOLVOMET/SIM² KU Leuven researchers Koen Binnemans and Peter Tom Jones. For this Comment piece they who worked together with...
