“The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret” is the attention-grabbing headline of the in-depth article by Oliver Balch, published in The Guardian (December 8, 2020). In a very eloquent way, this “long read” article reveals the social...
Removing batteries from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) for separate recycling is becoming increasingly challenging. Therefore, researchers from the Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) research group (SIM² – KU Leuven) performed a study to capture...
The lifecycle engineering (LCE) research group (SIM² KU Leuven) and the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre (Seville) have recently developed two methods to assess the repairability of energy and resource related products. In this paper, both research groups...
To mine or not to mine our 500,000+ landfills in Europe… that was the question that 15 PhD students explored during the past 4 years within the Horizon 2020 MSCA European Training Network for Resource Recovery through Enhanced Landfill Mining (NEW-MINE). In this final...
In three webinars, expert panelists will explore ways “Towards a responsible Supply Chain for Electronics – From Mining to Manufacturing” and analyse the different links in the ICT supply chain, from e.g. copper production, to artisanal and small-scale mining,...
The EIT-Labelled Master Programme in Sustainable Materials (SUMA) has received funding from EIT Raw Materials to continue educating high-level European and international engineering and science students in the field of materials science and engineering. Organised by...
