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SIM² Newsletter 1 March 2018

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Final EU CROCODILE video released during EU Raw Materials week

The closing EU CROCODILE video has been released. Featuring Nand Peeters (KU Leuven), Flavia Forte (Eco Recycling) and Zhangqi Wang (Accurec), the video covers the recycling value chain for the read more >>
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Systematic quantification of Waste Electric & Electronic Equipment plastics

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How green are choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents?

SOLVOMET/SIM2 researchers have demonstrated in the journal Green Chemistry that choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents (DESs) are not stable during high-temperature leaching processes for cobalt recovery.

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