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The art of conscious decoupling

In conversation with a senior think-tanker recently, the point was put to me – less as a proposition than a statement of fact – that with the coming of the ‘circular economy’, there will be less and less need for mining.

Not all metals needed for recycling in the circular economy make a full circle

Not all metals needed for recycling in the circular economy make a full circle

For those not fully up to speed on these things, the circular economy is one in which we meet all our raw material requirements by recovery, re-use and recycling. There is, it seems, a minor research industry...

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