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CONOU, the 2024 Sustainability Report confirms a leading circular economy model
Quality, equity, control, and trust. These are the four cornerstones of the consortium’s strategy that once again led to outstanding results in 2024.
Editorial Team•8 July 2025
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Circular Economy
Can mulching with human hair save…
Mulching with human hair, compressed into small mats placed at the base…
Isabella Ceccarini•4 July 2025

Circular Economy
How electrochemical reduction is turning CO2…
A team of researchers at Rice University has discovered a surprisingly simple…
Editorial Team•23 June 2025

Constructions
With the Graphene concrete, the sand doesn’t serve more
Replacing sand is possible by creating a graphene concrete derived from metallurgical coke. But the obstacle…
6 February 2024

Circular Economy
The right to repair is now ready to be implemented in the…
The political agreement has arrived between the EU Parliament and the Council that has sanctioned the…
5 February 2024

Recycling
Plastic credits: true or false solution to pollution?
According to promoters, plastic credits are more traceable than carbon credits. On the contrary, it is…
31 January 2024

Circular Economy
With pineapple leaves you get an impressive upcycling of HDPE
Combining waste vegetable fibers with recycled polyethylene allows an upcycling of HDPE that makes it suitable…
30 January 2024

Recycling
From Germany a technique to produce steel from aluminium waste
The treatment of red mud makes it possible to obtain steel from aluminum waste and avoid…
30 January 2024

Circular Economy
Lemon improves recovery of critical raw materials from lithium batteries
With organic citric acid and ethylene glycol recovery of critical raw materials from batteries is even…
19 January 2024

Circular Economy
From the upcycling of Wastepaper an anti shock foam better than polystyrene
Economical and environmentally friendly, the product developed by the American Chemical Society enables upcycling of carton…
17 January 2024

Circular Economy
High-performance cathodes are born from the upcycling of lithium batteries
The University of Birmingham has managed to obtain new cathodes with high energy density from upcycling…
5 January 2024

Circular Economy
China 10 years ahead of US and EU in recycling critical raw…
By 2059, Beijing will be the first independent country in battery production thanks to the recycling…
15 December 2023

Circular Economy
Compostable coffee capsules are the only circular solution
An analysis by Wageningen University shows that the environmental impacts of compostable coffee capsules are minimal…
23 November 2023

Recycling
What are plastic credits and why environmentalists worry
In the negotiations for the Plastic Treaty, the solution sought by the companies is firmly established.…
17 November 2023

Circular Economy
Solvolysis optimizes the recycling of carbon fiber composites
A specific pressure and temperature solvent pretreatment makes recycling of carbon fiber composites more advantageous