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Resource recovery, reuse, industrial symbiosis, circular procurement, waste systems, and material transitions.
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Italy has extended expressions of interest for its circular advanced materials initiative to October 21. The change gives prospective projects more time to enter the national selection process; it does not award support or relax the initiative’s stated circular-design requirements.
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Mauá has opened another Ecoenel collection point, where separated materials become credits on electricity bills.
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Japan’s latest municipal survey shows wider lithium-ion battery collection alongside much narrower acceptance of swollen or deformed batteries.
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Japan has opened an equipment-support call for more reliable supplies of recycled materials, including important metal resources.
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The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation became generally applicable on 12 August.
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Al Taweelah gives scrap historically exported from the United Arab Emirates a domestic route into recycled aluminum products.
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Europe’s new vehicle rules connect design and recycled-content targets with producer responsibility, traceability, collection and end-of-life treatment.
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Moldova and the European Commission are linking decarbonization, ecosystem protection and circular-economy implementation to EUR 641 million in announced project initiatives.
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Launched with a testing environment under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, the EU Digital Product Passport Registry turns a product-information requirement into operational infrastructure.
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A Swiss-engineered mobile dewatering plant is being trialed at a Wairau Valley stormwater pond.
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