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Recycling &Recovery Recovering and recycling end-of-life materials offers the potential to divert manufacturing waste streams and obtain secondary materials without the costs, embodied energy, and emissions resulting from extracting and processing virgin feedstock. However, due to the technical and logistical challenges associated with collecting, characterizing, sorting, separating, cleaning, and reprocessing materials, recycling and recovery today can often be energy-intensive and cost-prohibitive, with the cost of recycling sometimes exceeding the value of secondary products or the cost of virgin materials.

To address these issues, the REMADE Recycling & Recovery Node focuses on developing and advancing methods and technologies for the rapid gathering, identification, sorting, separation, contaminant removal, reprocessing, and disposal of high-scrap materials (fibers, metals, polymers, and e-waste).

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