Selected Papers from Circular Material Conference 2025
A special issue of Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 March 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy saving; pyrometallurgy; CO2 reduction in metallurgy
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Interests: batteries; battery recycling; WEEE& solar module recycling; metal extraction/recovery; supercritical CO2
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Interests: battery recycling; hydrometallurgy; metal extraction; metal recovery from primary and secondary sources
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 7th Circular Materials Conference 2025 (15–16 October 2025) provides a unique platform for knowledge exchange, debate, and networking among international key players from academia, industry, and policy. As we navigate the transition towards circular business models and sustainable material flows, this conference offers the opportunity to rethink materials through the lens of emerging technologies and cross-sector collaboration.
This forum welcomes professionals and stakeholders at the forefront of circular innovation. Participants include thought leaders in the circular economy, CEOs, R&D managers, producers, recyclers, collectors, retailers, policy-makers, representatives of global institutions and NGOs, researchers, clean-tech investors, and media professionals.
The conference will explore a wide range of topics within the field of circular materials, including strategies for EV battery recycling, the circular use of photovoltaic (PV) modules, the recovery of metals from secondary sources, and the waste management of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) ashes. Other areas of focus include circular packaging, the treatment of textiles, and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Research on the following topics can be submitted to Batteries:
- EV battery recycling;
- Sustainable batteries;
- Future battery recycling technologies.
- Research on the following topics can be submitted to Clean Technology:
- Circular economy strategies;
- Circular packaging;
- Plastic circularity;
- Material circularity and recycling of photovoltaic (PV) modules;
- Metals and CRM from secondary sources;
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE);
- Municipal solid waste incineration and fly ash;
- Building and construction circularity;
- Quantifying circular economy via life cycle assessments;
- Circularity in fiber-reinforced polymer composites;
- Circular strategies in textile design, reuse, and recycling.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Batteries.
Dr. Chuan Wang
Dr. Burçak Ebin
Dr. Martina Petranikova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste management
- battery recycling
- direct recovery
- circular materials
- metal extraction
- plastic recovery
- textile recycling
- second life
- circular economy
- LCA
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