Workshop Series on Resource Optimization for Critical Minerals: Recovery Strategies for Waste and Low-Grade Materials
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are conducting a two-part workshop series examining resource-optimization pathways to improve resilience, sustainability, and circularity of critical minerals supply in the United States. The workshops will focus on the recovery and reuse of critical minerals from 1) electronic waste and related industrial and consumer waste streams, and 2) biologically enabled recovery pathways for extracting or concentrating critical minerals from materials such as low-grade ores and mine wastes.