Case Studies

Within waste materials, technology critical metals such as Lithium (Li), Cobalt (Co), and rare earth elements are frequently embedded within intricate architectures composed of various components, including organics such as plastics and epoxy resins, inorganics like...

Twist had a list of assumptions about how components would impact a business operating a circular business model. Twist didn’t realise exactly how valuable the data would be to help their customers make much better decisions for their assets and their business. The...

This feasibility study is assessing the economic, technical and environmental opportunity to develop a value chain for the recycling of niobium products. This project aligns with themes 1, 3 and 4 for the Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals, Met4Tech....

Participants including industry partners, researchers, and policymakers have explored how past events and turning points have affected the development and markets for a select number of products containing technology metals at multiple Met4Tech workshops. The groups...

The REE called neodymium (Nd) makes the world’s strongest magnets. These NdFeB magnets are an ideal candidate to explore current and future ‘pain points’ (or bottlenecks) in a transition towards a more resource productive ‘circular’ value chain configuration because...

The globally iconic Southwest England metallogenic province is the location of the first case study of Thematic Area 2’s Development of Circular Economy Geomodels. Historic mining combined with recent battery metal exploration and geothermal energy development has...