Principal Researcher to present at PROMETIA Life Cycle Assessment Webinar
FREE WEBINAR - Life Cycle Assessment
Lucy Smith, a Principal Researcher at the Materials Processing Institute and Laurens Tijsseling from Minviro Ltd will be presenting at the Prometia Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Webinar on Tuesday 31st August 10:00-16:30 CEST, discussing sustainability in the mining sector and neodymium recycling.
The presentation by Lucy and Laurens will outline a case study comparing the environmental impacts of producing neodymium via two routes: cradle-to-gate from natural resources against the gate-to-gate process of recycling neodymium magnets. The results of the comparative environmental LCA will be presented, whilst highlighting the opportunities and limitations of economic and social LCA approaches and discussing future opportunities for collaboration.
This presentation is part of 9th scientific seminar of the PROMETIA association which will focus on the sustainability assessment (targeting economic, environmental and social impacts) in the industrial development of innovative solutions in the mining and recycling sector where the sustainability assessment (targeting economic, environmental and social impacts) is becoming a key element for the industrial development of any innovative solution in the Mining and Recycling sector. More specifically, the environmental benefit associated to any new technical solutions needs to be demonstrated using tools such as the carbon footprint or the Life Cycle Analysis (that will include more environmental impact categories than only the greenhouse gas emissions). These methods are used more frequently now by the Mining and Recycling sector but they still need more study and development to be accepted as reliable decision-making tools. New impact indicators should be developed to reflect/qualify/quantify the contribution of new processes, new productions, new sectors to the circular economy. New LCA methodologies are also needed to reflect dynamic transitional systems.
Further details and full webinar agenda can be accessed here - https://prometia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/PROMETIA_LCA_webinar_Agenda.pdf
For Registration please click here: https://site.evenium.net/lcawebinar/registration
25 August 2021
