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Cosmos Briefing: The Circular Economy
As Australia stands to make more money off recycling batteries, experts discuss the circular economy.
What is the circular economy, and how can it be achieved? As experts discuss the topic, a new report shows that Australia could make money off recycling lithium-ion batteries.
The COSMOS Briefing session was hosted by the Royal Institution of Australia’s lead scientist, Alan Duffy, with guest speakers Professor Veena Sahajwalla from the University of New South Wales, and Professor Thomas Maschmeyer from the University of Sydney.
The lithium-ion battery recycling industry could be worth up to $3.1 billion, according to a CSIRO report.
Treasure Chest of Resources Going To Waste in Australia: Expert
Australia is currently letting a wealth of resources go to waste, argues an expert from Swinburne University, who believes the country is missing out on an incredible opportunity to recover and repurpose precious resources from old or broken mobile phones.
Professor Alan Duffy, an astrophysicist from Swinburne University, said that while the phones themselves may not work, many metal components, including gold, silver, copper, and palladium, can be re-used after being extracted.
“They represent a valuable stockpile of resources that can be recovered and re-used,” Duffy said in a statement on March 1.
Cosmos Briefing: Building Australia’s Space Industry
Experts discuss Australia’s future in space.
Australia’s Space Agency is young, but that doesn’t mean we should be underestimated in space: that’s the message from yesterday’s Cosmos Briefing.
Aude Vignelles, Chief Technology Officer at Australian Space Agency; Adam Gilmour, CEO of Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies; and Cassandra Steer, a lecturer and researcher in space law at the Australian National University, discussed the evolving industry.
The session was hosted by the Royal Institution of Australia’s lead scientist, Alan Duffy.
Vignelles says that “In Australia, we’ve been working in space for a long time.