Circular Economy

The concept of a circular economy is where waste is eventually eliminated through improved efforts in recycling, repairing and reusing materials as well as reducing consumption. The concept was popularised by Ellen MacArthur and has been gaining momentum in recent years.

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Primary Materials in the Emerging Circular Economy

Implications for upstream resource producers and primary material exporters

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Comparing the costs and benefits of virgin and urban mining

Urban mining through a circular economy has emerged as a promising option for securing copper and aluminum resources.

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Emerging anthropogenic circularity science: principles, practices, and challenges

Anthropogenic circularity science will play an increasing role in enabling a smooth transition to a circular society.

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What if every city used doughnut economics?

2nd Feb 2021

In episode 7 of Rob Hopkins' podcast, "From What If To What Next", Kate Raworth – an economist and author of Doughnut Economics [...]

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Food for thought: doughnut economics

A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

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Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles

Rapid growth in the market for electric vehicles is imperative, to meet global targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to improve air quality [...]

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Circular economy: preserving materials or products?

This paper draws on material entropy and life cycle thinking to develop the Resource States framework. This framework clarifies and systematises the language [...]

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The geopolitics of metal supply security – mining, the circular economy and beyond

In this presentation Professor Saleem Ali considers the latest data on supply security based on recent research conducted on resource efficiency, recycling, remanufacturing [...]

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Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28

In this paper, the authors explore the possible evolution of four scenarios of copper demand in Europe to 2050.

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The capital load of global material footprints

In this recent paper, the authors introduce the capital-augmented material footprint (CAMF) as a new metric for material use that includes all the [...]

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Exploration radio – circular economy in mining with Saleem Ali

13th Oct 2020

The prevailing opinion seems to be that mining companies should only focus on mining as a means of creating value - we like [...]

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Estimating global copper demand until 2100 with regression and stock dynamics

This paper explores how copper demand might develop until the year 2100 under different socio-economic and technology scenarios.

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Decoupling economic growth and resource use

Can we achieve economic growth and global prosperity whilst simultaneously reducing – or even reversing – the environmental degradation caused by extracting the [...]

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Circular economy strategies for electric vehicle batteries reduce reliance on raw materials

The wide adoption of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles will require increased natural resources for the automotive industry.

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Completing the picture: how the circular economy tackles climate change

This paper argues that putting in place a circular economy is a fundamental step towards achieving climate targets.

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What’s a smartphone made of?

What is in your smartphone and can it be recycled? Kim Preshoff investigates the sustainability of phone production.

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A clean planet for all: a European strategic long long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy

The European Commission sets out its vision for a climate-neutral EU.

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Bloomberg NEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020

The Electric Vehicle Outlook is BloombergNEF’s annual long-term forecast of how electrification, shared mobility and autonomous driving will impact road transport from now [...]

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Mapping anthropogenic mineral generation in China and its implications for a circular economy

In their recent paper, Zeng et al consider anthropogenic mineral generation and its implications for achieving a circular economy.

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A vision for a sustainable battery value chain in 2030: unlocking the full potential to power sustainable development and climate change mitigation

The authors put forward their vision for how batteries can contribute to sustainable development and climate change mitigation over the coming decade.

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Greater circularity leads to lower criticality, and other links between criticality and the circular economy

The modern world is reliant on metals, so a secure and stable supply is vital.

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Improving resource efficiency and the circularity of economies for a greener world

This OECD paper outlines several measures required to help improve resource efficiency and stimulate a transition towards a more circular economy.

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Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements

Critical metals are technologically vital to the functionality of various emerging technologies, yet they have a potentially unstable supply. This condition calls for [...]

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