Metal Recovery from Wastewater: The Future of Wastewater Mining
Wastewater Mining: the untapped source of Critical Raw Materials Europe’s search for critical raw materials is often framed around finding new critical material sources in allied countries that reduce reliance on more hostile states. Discussions also focus on the recycling of metal products once they reach the end of their lives. These measures will all […]
Critical Raw Materials in Europe: How the CRM Act Is Strengthening the Critical Minerals Supply Chain
Critical Raw Materials in Europe: how the CRM Act is strengthening the Critical Minerals Supply Chain The EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRM Act), which entered into force in 2024, represents one of the most significant industrial policy initiatives in recent years. While much of the discussion has focused on increasing domestic mining and reducing […]
Why Companies Don’t Recover Metals from Industrial Wastewater?
Why Companies Don’t Recover Metals from Industrial Wastewater? Industrial wastewater holds enormous hidden value: strategic metals that every year end up in landfill instead of re-entering the production cycle. Yet most companies don’t recover them. Not for lack of intention, but because until today no technology existed capable of making recovery truly economical, scalable, and […]
Innovation and Circularity in the Galvanic Sector: Roundtable at Politecnico di Milano
Innovation and Circularity in the Galvanic Sector: Roundtable at Politecnico di Milano Friday, April 17, 2026, marked a significant milestone in the journey toward a circular economy for the Italian (and international) galvanic industry. In the prestigious setting of Politecnico di Milano, we at Circular Materials, in collaboration with A.I.F.M. (Italian Association of Metal […]
Deep Sea secret: How Supercritical Water Recovers Metals
Deep Sea secret: How Supercritical Water Recovers Metals Deep in the ocean, thousands of meters below the surface, nature performs a strange kind of magic. Near hydrothermal vents, where extreme pressure meets volcanic heat, water enters a “fourth state” (beyond the three most of us know: solid, liquid, and gas), defined as the supercritical state. In that moment, water is neither a liquid nor a gas. it is a powerful, high-energy fluid that behaves unlike anything we see on the surface. And here’s the magic. At our facility, we haven’t just studied this phenomenon; we’ve mastered it. Through our SWaP™ (Supercritical Water Precipitation) process, we bring the power of the deep ocean into our plant to solve one of the industry’s toughest challenges: metal recovery from industrial wastewater. The potential of supercritical water In nature, supercritical water […]